Danny O’Brien writes on the Committee to Protect Journalists web site: Traditionally, data obtained from the interception of electronic communications–a tapped phone or a monitored Internet connection–has been divided into two categories: the content of the interception (what is said) and what U.K. law calls “communications data.” Communications data is everything else about the message: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gareth Morgan writes in the Daily Star on Sunday: The Government want to spend £2BILLION keeping tabs on your emails, texts, visits to eBay and posts on Facebook. The location, time, date and duration of a phone call or the IP address from which an email was sent is already being monitored. This info is [...]
Dan Hodges writes on his blog on the Telegraph web site: I want to live in a surveillance state. Big Brother, come cast your watchful eye over me and mine. I love you, bro. Seriously, when I saw the outcry over Government plans to gain access to telephone, email and internet, my initial reaction was: [...]
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