With what is being considered yet another attack on the right to privacy, all ISPs in the UK will be obliged to store information about emails, including spam, that people in the country receive and send. The UK government already makes telephone companies maintain databases of all fixed and mobile calls, and now the information stored will include a timestamp and to/from details of each email. We reported on the UKs "spy database" in August last year, ISPs will be obliged to store the information from March onwards.
The reason? The Home Office believes such measures will help combat terrorism.
The monetary cost? In order to ensure compliance, ISPs will have to be paid, and the cost to taxpayers will top £25 million--money that University of Cambridge security expert Dr Richard Clayton believes could be better spent.
The cost in terms of liberty? Many argue that this will mean that people will be made to yield their right to privacy in one more area of their lives. David Carnegie, The Earl of Northesk and a Conservative peer, explains, "This degree of storage is equivalent to having access to every second, every minute, every hour of your life. People have to worry about the scale, the virtuality of your life being exposed to round about 500 public authorities. Under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, privacy is a fundamental right. . . it is important to protect the principle of privacy because once you've lost it it's very difficult to recover."
The Labour government can go to hell.
This has started my day on a bad note it really has
i know that people say if you have nothing to hide why moan about it, but thats not the point, we have the right to our day-to-day privacy, all the while we are under this Labour Mob we will loose more and more
Last edited by iAwesomeness on 10 Jan 2009 - 11:11
FFS in the UK there's been one successful fatal terrorist attack that killed about 50 ppl and injured a few hundred more and one unsuccessful attempt in HOW MANY years.
This govt says that we shouldn't yield to terrorism, yet that is EXACTLY what the govt is DOING. By taking away the rights of citizens the terrorists have won, because they made our stupid govt feel like they have to do things which they probably don't have to do to ensure our safety. Sometimes I think that this is one of the things that the terrorists wanted and set out to achieve.
I don't recall these types of measures when the I.R.A. were bombing London and Manchester.
This goes to show the weak immigration and deportation policy we have, the poor security we have and
the fact this government don't adhere to the human rights of the electorate.
They put terrorists before their own people.
I did tell you all this was going to happen in 2005 and I was ignored.
Britain is now the European China.
ugh don't get me started on that woman. I've never hated any politician as much as her. She is the main reason I won't be voting Labour anytime soon.
Maybe that's their intention?
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Password for the text: say hello to my little friend
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And my solution is simple, it breaks compatibility by loads but oh well, 2 days before this comes into effect, my servers non-SSL IMAP, HTTP, SMTP and POP3 services will be disabled and I'll leave the SSL variants running.
It used to be that the government needed suspects and to carry out investigations - now they simply click a button on a database and go around arresting people. No thanks.
Seems they care more about me than my own government.
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