The UK government plans to store information about every telephone call, email, and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database.
Details were disclosed by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker earlier this month at a Commons committee to examine draft EU directives.
Not only that, their new plan....
Millions of Britons who use social networking websites such as Facebook could have details of everyone they correspond with monitored by the Government.
Under the proposals, the Home Office is considering making the sites keep data about their users' movements.
These details may then be saved on a "Big Brother" database.
The Home Office said the idea was to tackle criminals and terrorists who might use the websites to communicate.
He said the Government was considering acting on social networking sites because they were not covered by the latest proposals from Brussels.
"Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive," he said.
"That is one reason why the Government are looking at what we should do about the intercept modernisation programme because there are certain aspects of communications which are not covered by the directive."
ALL IN THE NAME OF SAVING US FROM TERRORISM
Like we haven't heard that shit before? Thanks very much. Oh wait, they are monitoring every internet visit, so they are probably reading this post right now. Great.
To me, it looks like the UK will just continue going downhill until they step on the toes of everyone enough that they rebel. I don't know if it will take a violent revolution or what though. Not like you can do much without any knives or guns any more anyway though, is there
Hey, here's a thought to reduce terrorism... stop letting extremist muslims into your country, and make the ones who are already in SHUT UP OR GO HOME. They're easy enough to identify... they're the ones standing on the corner with signs that say "EUROPE IS THE CANCER, ISLAM IS THE ANSWER", "BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM", and "KILL ALL JUICE". Guess what, muslims left their country for the UK because their homelands are backwards, batshit crazy, and in complete chaos. They left their country to come to a wealthy westernized country to live a peaceful convenient life. Well guess what, the problem isn't the country they are occupying.... the problem lies in the people themselves and their religion. Someone has to stand up and tell them (because it appears to government obviously won't, as now they are such a large proportion that their votes actually matter to politicians).... No, we won't enforce sharia law, no we won't ban alcohol, no we won't stone people to death for being raped. No, we won't give your stupid ideas and beliefs diplomatic immunity and allow it to become hate speech to call you out. STFU OR GTFO.
Yeah its not like that here.
Tolerance for all and spying on everyone. Great.
I'm really starting to despise this labour government. They want to track 60 million people of every single phone call, email or website they visit, and monitor social networking sites?
What happened to civil liberties? We have no constitution here so this shit flies by easy as long as the turds in parliament agree.
:shakes head:
Might I suggest OpenDNS + Tor Anonymity Network + Privoxy
You draw a knife, I draw a gun...