Well, it would appear that the government has quietly started the next step of its Orwellian nightmare, er sorry I mean anti-terrorist measures as from yesterday they are monitoring our online movements. Every website you access or attempt to access, every email you send, including the sender, recipient, the time and your location, you network of online contacts, all of this will now be stored for 12 months and available for the government to stick their nose in at any time. Worryingly it seems that even junior employees will have access to some of this information.
Why does the government need to carry out such measure on its own people? We now apparently have unmanned spy planes floating 50000 feet above the English countryside, our phone and internet activity is monitored, we are caught on CCTV an average of 300 times a day each, records of our bank transactions, credit card payments, benefits applicants, medical records are all being stored on huge databases to which too many people have access. If the government gets its way they will soon have even more information on us - our DNA, our iris scans, our fingerprints. Why the hell do they need to watch us so closely?
The actions of this government seriously disturb me, and the only reason I am not panicking even more is because the sheer amount of data they are going to be collecting will hopefully render it useless.
Anyway, see this article
and this legislation
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Dear Editor,
If all the internet traffic created in the UK was stored for sifting through by mindless bureaucrats in Whitehall they would never get through it all!They would probably never migrate beyond the porn data anyway.Everyone knows the internet harbors loads of junk as it is, so why create more.
If the assumption that one Whitehall bureaucrat watched the information generated by 1000 people it would require 60,000 staff to watch the nation. This is rather expensive in salaries to achieve virtually nothing. Could one bureaucrat actually monitor 1000 other people effectively, I doubt it.
In George Orwell's book 1984 they say "knowledge is power and power is knowledge", except that in this case too much is just plain stupid.
I am not going to loose any sleep over it.
Do you think this comment is now in a "to monitor file" already?
On another point; sorry for no response to your column for a while, but I had been banned from the internet by my other half.Clearly the 1984 regime is active closer to home already!
"On another point; sorry for no response to your column for a while, but I had been banned from the internet by my other half.Clearly the 1984 regime is active closer to home already!"
what on earth did you get caught doing??!!
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