Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
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Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#2When this was originally proposed I thought it would never get passed because it sounded like something right out of 1984. Amazing. I thought the ridiculous 'Agree to this cookie' nonsense was stupid but this is now just very creepy. National database for keylogging next?
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#3Brazil has passed that a few years ago as part of Marco Civil - 1 year period too, which can be extended per request from the authorities:
>Art. 13. Na provisão de conexão à internet, cabe ao administrador de sistema autônomo respectivo o dever de manter os registros de conexão, sob sigilo, em ambiente controlado e de segurança, pelo prazo de 1 (um) ano, nos termos do regulamento.
It demands the storage for 1 year of "connection access registers", defined as:
>VIII - registros de acesso a aplicações de internet: o conjunto de informações referentes à data e hora de uso de uma determinada aplicação de internet a partir de um determinado endereço IP.
I.e. user IP, access data, and info on the accessed website/application.
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#4I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#5I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
Until VPNs become illegal...
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#6I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
I just feel like using a VPN, while legal, might already put you on some list of "suspicious" users. Surely, if you have something to hide, then you are worth investigating closely.
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#7Oddly I can't find any other sources reporting this. I'd have expected it to show up in at least one other place else (e.g. BBC news for example).
I'm not trying to imply that it's not accurate, I'm just confused by the lack of info. And the article doesn't really reference anything other than other zdnet articles, so it's really hard to tell exactly what form of the act got passed - did all the really controversial stuff actually make it in?
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#8I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
Until VPNs become illegal...
That would be a very hard fight for them since enforcing it without fundamentally breaking the way the internet works would be very expensive to a lot of very wealthy companies and sadly in this 'democracy' the people with the money are heard the loudest.
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#9I will just leave this here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com
I just feel like using a VPN, while legal, might already put you on some list of "suspicious" users. Surely, if you have something to hide, then you are worth investigating closely.
Which is why we need to push as many people as possible to use VPN's, they already have too much straw and too few needles so lets give them even more straw.
The reality is that no one in the know thinks this has anything to do with terrorism and everything to do with political control.
If you don't have the right to privacy then all other rights are subverted, previous governments have used the state security apparatus to monitor perfectly legal political activities, they've proven again and again they can't be trusted with this kind of power and we let them give themselves more (and legalise all the illegal shit they where already doing).
The reality is the UK (which traditionally has been a less free society for a 'free' society) is rapidly sliding into something you can't realistically call a free society.
Re: Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”
#10Oddly I can't find any other sources reporting this. I'd have expected it to show up in at least one other place else (e.g. BBC news for example). I'm not trying to imply that it's not accurate, I'm just confused by the lack of info. And the article doesn't really reference anything other than other zdnet articles, so it's really hard to tell exactly what form of the act got passed - did all the really controversial…
Here's the Open Rights Group (a UK group who aspire to emulate the EFF) on the latest development - note in particular the link at the bottom of the article, to their "campaign hub" on the bill:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2016/ipb-will...
And, for what it's worth, a brief report from The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/16/british_pols_sign_of...