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Post 1

MadSnacker-h2g2 ambassador to Yorkshire and the UK

Read an article in the Los Angeles Times this afternoon. Apparently there are plans for an absolutely comprehensive surveillance of communication between U.K. citizenry.

Everything,ladies and gentlemen, will be going into some sort of computerized archive..regardless of the feelings of said citizenry.

It'll be smiley - weird to know that there's open eavesdropping going on here..though supposedly theres some sort of apparatus to prevent such stuff from going on

Right.

Who's intrested in talking bout this stuff???

smiley - huh


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Post 2

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

all chat places and emails, basically everything will be archived for about 1 year, so "intelligence dept's" can "view" looking for terrorism related info etc.


here's one for them - BOG OFF!


smiley - laugh


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Post 3

aka Bel - A87832164

The bit about saving internet data for a year s EU law, and Germany is having a hard time for it because our data protection laws forbid this.
EU threatens us with huge fines if we don't comply.


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Post 4

MadSnacker-h2g2 ambassador to Yorkshire and the UK

Hmmm....

I see..hit the folk in the pocketbook if no compliance.
Compliance leads to goodness knows what. Not much of a choice,innnit???

smiley - sadface


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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

communist policies - democratic policies smiley - laughsmiley - laughnot a lot of difference between the 2. Only fair play smiley - winkeyefor the minority in any society as persmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 6

MadSnacker-h2g2 ambassador to Yorkshire and the UK

I would suggest that facism isn't too far behind as far as getting a foothold in Western civilization again....
smiley - sadfacesmiley - sadfacesmiley - sadface

Talk about rock and a hard place...
smiley - yikes


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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

it's the old old saying - what goes around, comes around.

They've all been tried and failed, but no one can think anything elsesmiley - sadfacehistory will just keep on repeating it's mistakes


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Post 8

myk

There is plenty of software which can keep ALL your communications private ( email, SMS msgs, chatrooms, VOIP phones, annonomous web browsing).
It's just people don't, or can't be bothered to use it. Do we really care about our privacy????

I have heard the same kind of thing is happening in the USA: the NSA is building a mega datacentre for thier national database which will include ALL internet communications of US citizens. Am i right?




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Post 9

MadSnacker-h2g2 ambassador to Yorkshire and the UK

I'll have to look that up...smiley - blush

I would on the outset agree, however.
smiley - sadface

Seems that the day of a truly functional "Big Brother" is quickly arriving.


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Post 10

myk

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

That is the story in Wired magazine about it.
And below is the article about it in Forbes online magazine(if you dont want to read all the wired article, it goes on for a few pages, just check out the write up Forbes for the main points and the numbers involved-it will blow you away.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/16/nsas-new-data-center-and-ultra-fast-supercomputer-aim-to-crack-worlds-strongest-crypto/


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Post 11

MadSnacker-h2g2 ambassador to Yorkshire and the UK

Thanks...I'll be reading this first thing...

smiley - oksmiley - ok


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Post 12

myk

You should many read this thing first: smiley - smileyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database

It's much the same as what is proposed over here, by the look of it.


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