Government To Spy On Every Mobile Phone User In Britain
The planned database containing information on every email and phone call, held at GCHQ
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society. The Labour government is behaving irresponsibly and illegally with our privacy. There will be hell to pay at the ballot box for this.
David Leppard, Sunday Times/The One Click Group
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http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2420&end=2440&view=yes&id=2994#newspost
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UK: Big Brother database threatens to 'break the back of freedom'
Government plans to build a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales warned of the dangers posed by a "Big Brother" security state.
http://tinyurl.com/5z2vo5
From Information Clearing House
UK: Government black boxes will ‘collect every email’
Independent [UK]
11/05/08
Internet “black boxes” will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government’s plans for a giant “big brother” database, The Independent has learnt. Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the “black box” technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web before transferring it to a giant central database controlled by the Government. Plans to create a database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK have provoked a huge public outcry. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, described it as “step too far” and the Government’s own terrorism watchdog said that as a “raw idea” it was “awful”...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-black-boxes-will-collect-every-email-992268.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=database
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society. The Labour government is behaving irresponsibly and illegally with our privacy. There will be hell to pay at the ballot box for this.
David Leppard, Sunday Times/The One Click Group
Read More...
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=2420&end=2440&view=yes&id=2994#newspost
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UK: Big Brother database threatens to 'break the back of freedom'
Government plans to build a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales warned of the dangers posed by a "Big Brother" security state.
http://tinyurl.com/5z2vo5
From Information Clearing House
UK: Government black boxes will ‘collect every email’
Independent [UK]
11/05/08
Internet “black boxes” will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government’s plans for a giant “big brother” database, The Independent has learnt. Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the “black box” technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web before transferring it to a giant central database controlled by the Government. Plans to create a database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK have provoked a huge public outcry. Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, described it as “step too far” and the Government’s own terrorism watchdog said that as a “raw idea” it was “awful”...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-black-boxes-will-collect-every-email-992268.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=database
rudkla - 20. Okt, 17:32
