Daily Archives: August 15, 2012


Glyn Moody writes in his blog at ComputerWorld UK: The Draft Communications Bill is one of the most controversial pieces of UK legislation proposed in recent years – not least because it represents a betrayal of election promises by the coalition to roll back state surveillance in the UK. As usual, the government is attempting to claim that current plans are “different” because the databases are distributed, not centralised; but the fact that searches will be possible across all the decentralised holdings means that there is no practical difference. This is quite simply another example of politicians promising one thing to get elected, and then doing its opposite. However, all is not lost. Recognising perhaps that there would be a storm of protest over this move to a total surveillance state, the government has graciously permitted “pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee of both Houses”. This has already led to […]

The Googlisation of Surveillance