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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 5:26 am
Yeah, I heard about that. Something to do with security. It seems our privacy is being made less private. I wouldn't mind so much if they did it with suspected or known criminals and terrorists, but not to freely snoop through random people's private messages.
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 6:08 am
Fucking retarded ass government. YOU DON'T OWN THE INTERNETZ!!!!
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 8:12 am
Is this more fallout from those riots?
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2012 at 10:32 am by BoyWonder.)
The authorities already monitor what Britishers do every second of every day in the public space with 10 million CCTV cameras. So now they are expanding surveillance to the privacy of the home and private communications. It's a logical step on the road to Airstrip One.
I think you should tape up your device's built-in webcams and mics. Who knows who could be looking right at you, right now!
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 12:45 pm
George Orwell strikes again.
And the Conservatives said they were going to be better on civil liberties than Labour. Pah, they'd like to bring in a 'bill of rights' and fuck off the European Human Rights Act, wonder why? Oh, because the Euro rights are friendly to PEOPLE, not Governments, bastards!!!!!
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 2:52 pm
That is fucked up. There is no reason for them to need to monitor everything and everyone. People deserve privacy.
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RE: UK: Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws.
April 2, 2012 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2012 at 3:35 pm by BoyWonder.)
Before 2020 I expect every family to have mandatory webcams in their children's bedrooms "so that the government can take its responsibility and monitor and prevent child abuse".
And by 2030 infra-red webcams in your bedroom to monitor spousal abuse and perverted sex acts.
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