[NetBehaviour] UK Government proposes email and internet tracking.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Sat Aug 16 15:55:56 CEST 2008


UK Government proposes email and internet tracking.

quote "Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public 
bodies are to be given the power to access details of everyone's 
personal text, emails and internet use under Home Office proposals 
published yesterday."

The excuses went from fighting terrorism to fighting antisocial 
behaviour. Since this is a EU directive, your data is to be shared 
across the EU. Predictable downhill slide. Invest in multiple, trusted, 
overseas proxies and encrypt everything now before this becomes law.

Similar article on PC Pro...
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/218052/government-proposes-internet-tracking.html

Here is the proposal from the UK Home Office website. Because they just 
couldn't make it that easy, you have to add '.pdf' to the file name to 
open it correctly...
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition



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