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Message from the EU: We'll be following you online from tomorrow.
BillieTheBot
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And before I get accused of scaremongering, this does come from the European Union. Naturally, our craven government has done exactly what it's told, being a bunch of control freaks themselves. In March 2006, they [the EU] formally adopted Directive 2006/24/EC, on "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC".
The Indy explains it a bit better: "The mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which come into force on Monday. Privacy campaigners warned last night that the information would be used by the Government to create a giant 'Big Brother' super-database containing a map of everyone's private life."
Just why are these bastards so obsessed with knowing everything about us? First, we discover that New Labour want to follow us on social networking sites. (the New Labour wall views you on FB, not the other way round) Now we get this crap. Yet again, we see our governments trying to intimidate us into giving away yet more of our rights on the laughable premise that a man in an Afghanistan cave is plotting to blow us up. If you wrote that plot into a children's book, the kids would think you were taking the piss out of them. But we meekly accept it. And I'm left wondering how the hell we can stop this madness...
Over to you...
The Indy explains it a bit better: "The mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which come into force on Monday. Privacy campaigners warned last night that the information would be used by the Government to create a giant 'Big Brother' super-database containing a map of everyone's private life."
Just why are these bastards so obsessed with knowing everything about us? First, we discover that New Labour want to follow us on social networking sites. (the New Labour wall views you on FB, not the other way round) Now we get this crap. Yet again, we see our governments trying to intimidate us into giving away yet more of our rights on the laughable premise that a man in an Afghanistan cave is plotting to blow us up. If you wrote that plot into a children's book, the kids would think you were taking the piss out of them. But we meekly accept it. And I'm left wondering how the hell we can stop this madness...
Over to you...
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Also the ISPs are asked only to record emails having been transferred, rather than the content of those emails.
I doubt that this is a big deal, I expect various router logs already keep this info anyway, for troubleshooting purposes.
The plus side is all these internet stalkers/peadophiles and whatever other type of sick people there are will have a better chance of being caught.
:banghead: