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Data you send out over the internet unencrypted doesn't have an expectation of privacy. Yet lots of people assume stuff like this is private.
The only way to close the gap is to publish the data so everyone can see exactly what they and others are inadvertently telling the world.
Why didn't they just do what the US Gov did? Snoop but not tell anyone. Certainly would have saved them some grief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
And then lie about it to congress. Repeatedly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwiUVUJmGjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNXVgYhPOc And then lying about lying about it. https://youtu.be/2d03yjXRPtI?t=262
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> Using candy-coated language for such things is as (almost as) harmful as the acts themselves. 'Snooping' isn't candy-coated language in British English, and this is a British article. It's just another way to say surveillance. You're imagining a meaning that isn't there.
Brit here: can concur. 'Snooping' is pejorative in British English. It implies that (at the very least) you are sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, and always carries a hint of sinister overtone.
Surveillance is a whole other level.
When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping. It's surveillance.
The fact that some of you accept snooping as being legitimate description simply proves my point about candy-coating it.
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All it suggests is that the UK is happy to curry favour with the US government and doesn't give a hoot about the perceived rights of American citizens. Harsh, but true. Their own citizens are an entirely different ballpark, as you might say.
The UK government is also even more lax than the US one with regard to its own citizens privacy.
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I don’t want to derail a very interesting thread but IMHO snooping has a darker connotation than surveilling.
The night security guard surveills the premisis. Your school nemesis snoops on what you're up to to try to embarrass or one-up you in some way. Surveillance can be good or bad. Snooping is always bad.
This is a couple ISPs in bed with the government. Under what conditions is that good surveillance?
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Brit here: can concur. 'Snooping' is pejorative in British English. It implies that (at the very least) you are sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, and always carries a hint of sinister overtone.
Snooping is what your neighbor does. Surveillance is a whole other level. When your ISP is logging your every move for a year. And making it available to the government. Regardless of country, that's not snooping. It's surveillance. The fact that some of you accept snooping as being legitimate description simply proves my point about candy-coating it.
But that's just not true in British English.
I don't know anything about you but your comments imply you're not British? If so, you'll just have to accept you don't know the meaning of these words in written British English.
You're mistaken. I don't know what else to tell you?
i'm not as concerned as i might be. My rather meager understanding, which may be entirely baseless, is, that unlike the NSA which is obsessive about collecting every single scrap of data (and many large chunks), the UK intelligence services are rather more discerning. Again, i would be happy for someone to correct me, that's just the general impression i get.
I recommend reading this article, which includes leaked documents from GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
How very democratic and transparent of them
Kinda in two minds about this...tempted to implement a VPN to a VPS but not super keen on killing my gbps speeds.