Archive for April 9th, 2012

Just Because It’s Now Cheaper And Easier To Spy On Everyone All The Time, Doesn’t Mean Governments Should Do It

Posted at Monday, April 9th, 2012 by andrew

Glyn Moody writes on the TechDirt web site, drawing analogies between the Home Office’s Communications Capability Development Programme (CCDP) and similar legislation passed in Sweden in 2008: It’s still not entirely clear what the UK government wants to gather — it has been understandably evasive on this front — but it would seem to include [...]

Why the Tories are wrong on electronic surveillance

Posted at Monday, April 9th, 2012 by andrew

Andrew McKie writes in The Herald: ‘Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” This sentiment, one of many fine observations in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, remains as excellent and true as it was on its publication. So sensible and of such continued relevance, in fact, that it was used 250 years later to introduce a policy [...]

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