UK Internet privacy at risk

[MaNiCC]

I just recieved this email from a member of a group which monitors the government and new things they intend to bring in.

Dear
,

Please sign our petition against web and email snooping

Last week, the government sneaked into their Security Review a proposal to revive mass Internet surveillance.

Under the Kafka-esque title of the “Intercept Modernisation Programme”, this would mean interception of every online communication by every UK citizen, and recording who is talking to who.

Every email, website, Facebook message or chatroom message would be recorded.

If that sounds expensive and vastly difficult, then you are right. The review says the government wants to waste £2 billion despite massive cuts across vital services.

The coalition’s said they would aim to “end the storage of Internet and email records without good reason”. We need to remind them that they promised to protect our civil liberties. ORG and our friends at No2ID and Privacy International fought off these plans under Labour – we can fight them off again.

In just one day, yesterday, over 1,000 people signed our petition.

Please add your name – and tell your friends. - http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea...mpaign.id=8227

Sign our petition - http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea...mpaign.id=8227

Thank you,



Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group

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[lovbyts]

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Same thing is happening in the US. Not that they dont already do what they want when they want but they just want to make it the norm instead of the exception.

[D7M]

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Same thing is happening in the US. Not that they dont already do what they want when they want but they just want to make it the norm instead of the exception.

yep...exactly.

anyone who thinks the NSA or whoever isn't watching every move you make on the internet is fooling themselves.