UK Internet surveillance plan to go ahead
This is the same as the Canadian plan working its way through the legislative process. You’d better write your MP to get it stopped now.
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BBC News
November 9, 2009
The Home Office says it will push ahead with plans to ask communications firms to monitor all internet use.
Ministers confirmed their intention despite concerns and opposition from some in the industry.
The proposals include asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.
Some 40% of respondents to the Home Office’s consultation opposed the plans – but ministers say communication interception needs to be updated.
Both the police and secret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
But the rules largely focus on communications over telephones and do not cover the whole range of internet communications now being used.
The Home Office says it wants to change the law to compel communication service providers (CSPs) to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, such as within online games.
Ministers say that they do not want to create a single government-owned database and only intend to ask CSPs to hold a record of a contact, rather than the actual contents of what was said.
Technically challenging
Police and other agencies would then be able to ask CSPs for information on when a communication was sent and between whom.
In theory, law enforcement agencies will be able to link that information to specific devices such as an individual’s smartphone or laptop.
The proposals are technically challenging, as they would require a CSP to sort and organise all third-party traffic coming and going through their systems. The estimated £2bn bill for the project includes compensation for the companies involved.
Home Office minister David Hanson said: “Communications data is crucial to the fight against crime and in keeping people safe. It is a highly technical area and one which demands a fine balance between privacy and maintaining the capabilities of the police and security services.
“The consultation showed widespread recognition of the importance of communications data in protecting the public and an appreciation of the challenges which rapidly changing technology poses.
“We will now work with communications service providers and others to develop these proposals, and aim to introduce necessary legislation as soon as possible.”
Opposition and concern
The consultation results reveal that 90 of the 221 responses opposed the basic principles that the government should be seeking a method to retain or look at the data.
The Home Office said that there was a “widespread but not unanimous” recognition of the role of data in protecting the public. But many concerns related to the detail of what would be done with the information.
Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner responsible for overseeing the protection of private information, told the Home Office that while he recognised that the police needed to use communication data to stop crime, this in itself was not a justification to collect all possible data passing through the internet.
“The proposal represents a step change in the relationship between the citizen and the state,” said Mr Graham.
“For the first time, this proposal is asking CSPs to collect and create information they would not have previously held and to go further in conducting additional processing on that information.
“Evidence for this proposal must be available to demonstrate that such a step change is necessary and proportionate.”
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:07 am
This over-surveillance is also a threat to Business.
As I have said before, it is most likely that large International Companies, are becoming increasingly aware that all of their Business Transmissions through the UK are at risk, and important contracts may well be in jeopardy due to interception.
There is also the fact that UK’s Big Brother may find he has an even Bigger Brother watching him. This surveillance and Data Collection Technology may already be being used by Counter Intelligence Services from other counties.
As already disclosed many times via the media, the Data the Government does have is very loosely guarded. Laptops left in public places, CD discs, DVD Discs, and Pen Drives left in public places.
To cap it all they still want to store more of our private and personal data.
British National Security is becoming a bad joke at our expense.
Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk
November 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am
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