Big Brother
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This might be a daft question. Is Big Brother really watching? Or is it just the moderators
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lol I feel daft now. Thanks ;D
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If you live in Great Britain, Big Brother IS watching!
Starting today (6 April 2009), the contents of every email sent and the IP address of every website visited by everyone in Britain will be stored by ISPs for a year. Police and national security services will be able to access the information "to combat crime and terrorism."
The surveillance comes as part of an EU directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, and which Britain pushed hard to get through the EU.
Phil Noble of NO2ID (a privacy advocacy group) says "This is the kind of technology the Stasi would have dreamed of."
"We are facing a co-ordinated strategy to track everyone's communications, creating a dossier on every person's relationships and transactions.
"It is clearly preparatory work for the as-yet un-revealed plans for intercept modernisation."
-Phil Noble
The "Intercept Modernisation Programme" is the British plan to store virtually all internet traffic information in Britain in a centralized location, to which police and intelligence services will have ready access.
It's not clear to me to what extent other EU countries are participating in the internet surveillance program. It appears to be mandatory for all ISPs within the EU. Britain has been spinning the monitoring program to its public as a necessary imposition from Brussels, even though the legislation was drafted by Britain, was introduced into the EU parliament by Britain, and Britain was instrumental in pushing the legislation through the EU.
British secuity services became paranoid after the London bombings of 7 July 2005. They have become convinced that comprehensive monitoring of the internet activities of all British citizens is necessary to secure the nation from terrorism.
A Home Office spokesman said: "It is the Government's priority to protect public safety and national security. That is why we are completing the implementation of this directive, which will bring the UK in line with our European counterparts.
"Letters will go out to communication service providers telling them that it is coming into force. We are talking across the board, to all communication providers."
British officials have said communications data have played a "vital part" in a wide range of criminal investigations, such as finding the killer of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, a Liverpool schoolboy shot dead in 2007.
"Without communications data, resolving crimes such as the Rhys Jones murder would be very difficult if not impossible."
hxxp://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105519/Internet-records-to-be-stored-for-a-year.html
hxxp://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Intercept_Modernisation
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Is Big Brother really watching? Or is it just the moderators
why wouldn't big brother be watching anyway ?
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OMFG!!!!! I remember reading 1984 in 1967 as a 7th grader and it is finally here!!!
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