Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Feeling compfortable?
The Times: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials..................Off topic again I know but this isnt funny
Posted by titaniccaptain @ 12:05 AM (596 views) Add Comment
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1. titaniccaptain said...
I do apologise for posting this to those who read this site looking purely for HPC related topics however I feel this is a very important issue and does relate (be it tenuously) to the governing factors that our society is subject to i.e. The closure on information regarding Northern Rock by the state as opposed to the state's open information on you and I. I know that there is genuine panic in the u.k. with regard to the housing market by many and turning to this web site as a means to clarify the situation only to be confounded by a posting on the states controll of its people may seem very outlandish but as I have said there is a link
2. paul said...
My goodness. My second Brazil (1985) clip of the night. Someone should keep a tally. Bet there's a department for that ...
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4. taffee said...
in russia they use tax fraud to 'get' people...in the uk they will be using the above information as leverage.
have you ever been told internet law and what is okay and what isn't?...no...because they don't want you to know
youtube,myspace and facebook look pretty dicy to me at times and my daughter is on them all the time but I pay the internet bill!..am I responsible?
I have wireless...can people tap in to that?...apparently so...really scry paranoid society.
5. crash n burn said...
Looks like we will have to go back to using small pieces of paper, a rubber band and a pigeon.
6. Landofconfusion said...
> 3. taffee said...
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> myspace and facebook look pretty dicy to me at times
Sometimes I think we're all really screwed. Those two are excellent examples of people simply giving away personal information. And now we have a government that is willing to do it for all of us, whether we like it or not.
7. cornishman said...
The government might see a massive e-mail database as desirable.
But if my inbox is anything to go by, it will quickly get overwhelmed by offers to buy cheap software, viagra and pen!s enlargement stuff.
Can't see it happening in a meaningful way yet. Maybe then legislation to ban junk e-mails. That would be good.
8. Charlie Brooker said...
The Matrix it is then . . . .
9. yoyo1 said...
Big brother is now in business. BT tested secret 'spyware' on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge and has more plans for the future, see: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/bbphone/article.html?in_article_id=437512&in_page_id=182
10. Quiet Guy said...
@titaniccaptain
"apologise for posting this to those who read this site looking purely for HPC related topics"
Considering the indulgence shown to certain other posters on the site (regular readers all know who I'm talking about) I think we can easily accommodate the occasional diversion.
Personally, I' surprised that anybody feels that they need this capability; the police and other public bodies already have the tools to collect extensive information about electronic and telephone data. This database appears to be just an attempt to make the process more convenient. I don't view this as an attack on fundamental privacy - that was lost years ago.
11. crash bandicoot said...
The police are swamped with so many duties at present they are unable to pursue most "minor" crimes. How will creating a massive database to trawl through help this?
Also once the bad guys know what is going on they will either not use the monitored system to discuss their plans, or will pay off the supervisors so that they turn a blind eye, leaving the database as a tool to repress the willing participants.
12. malct said...
No doubt HOUSE PRICES would be detrimentally affected in the ORANGE zone. see the short clip tc not really off subject at all imho
For a humerous and fairly accurate video clip on just where this database thing is taking us you may like to check this short piece out.
Extracted from Aarron Russo's film.
Details of America - Freedom to Fascism - Future Pizza Delivery Clip AVI
http://www.mininova.org/det/513072 - bittorrent
or dare I say it youtube here:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjrKgXWaQso
13. malct said...
11. crash bandicoot said...
The police are swamped with so many duties at present they are unable to pursue most "minor" crimes
Moves are already underway to redirect various historic police efforts into other agencies.
One example is vehicle parking. Whereas a couple of years ago you would have received a parking ticket from a Traffic Warden or Parking Attendant backed up by police authority, this has now been transferred to local councils and the uniformed gestapo type bloke dishing out the tickets works for a private firm, NCP etc and has the legal status of a BALIFF. They are known as PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.