Kaizenlog

—————————————+
| UK Gov’t Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage          |
|   from the ofsted-is-spooky dept.                                  |
|   posted by timothy on Wednesday August 13, @18:16 (Privacy)       |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/2037219 |
+——————————————————————–+

[0]Barence writes “Big Brother Britain moved a step further today with
the news that the Government will store ‘a billion incidents of data
exchange a day’ as [1]details of every text, email and browsing session
in the UK are recorded. Under new proposals published yesterday, the
information will be made available to police forces in order to crack
down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils,
health authorities and even [2]Ofsted and the Post Office. The
Conservatives have criticised the idea, with the Shadow Home Secretary
saying, ‘yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the
temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to
snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances.’”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/08/13/2037219

Links:
0. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/218052/government-proposes-internet-tracking.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofsted