UK Government To 'Spy' On Every Call, Email, Web Search

Telegraph:

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.

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[MyTake]

Let's see, China cut loose the U.S. provided facial recognition software and technology that permitted photo facial capture, search, match and retrieval in under 30 seconds during their past olympics and are rolling out that technology across their nation.

Britain captures all electronic data and photo's without cause.

The U.S. captures all electronic data under the Patriot Act. Their NSA has so much of it that they are building new data storage sites to keep up with the storage requirements.

I get the feeling that somewhere in the world, possibly in Brussels, that their is a global population technology project in place that is building the electronic and photo signature of every person who has been swept up in these massive electronic captures.

Now I wonder what organizations are behind this capture and what they intend on doing with the data!

And still the populations do not mass protest.

[ZSV]

They spy you pay! The cost of storing all that data will be passed on to th customers for sure.

[kittyonice]

The difference between here and there is that here the government just sneaks it in without bothering to check with the people at the last moment, if not abjectly & covertly doing funny business secretly, under everybody's noses. And getting away with it until some observant drone picks up on the secret. There, they actually bother to have a conversation with their public and give them a chance to object before betraying their wishes, but make no effort to hide or camouflage it.

[sarabono]

When you have a radical Islamic portion of your population, fueled by excessive Islamic immigration, this is what you apparently get.

[Fabini]

When you have a reactionary fundamentalist Christian portion of your population fueled by ignorance, paranoia, and low self-esteem, this is what you get.

[Bitsko]

A recent issue of the NY Review of Books had an informative article about the ever expanding surveillance powers of the NSA. Turns out that the computers they're building are so immense that there's no way they can get enough electricity to power them. Your tax dollars at work.

[sarabono]

If they need backup power, just put one of our sub's near by and hook it into the grid.

I was in Hawaii 20 years ago when a hurricane hit. That is exactly what the Navy did to help out the big island of Hawaii.

[condor101]

Oh, definitely this is already going on in the U.S.
All of our messages are being warehoused. It's a scary world.
Everything can and will be used against you.

[Fabini]

Isn't it true condor101 that on November 10, 2009 at exactly 8:21 PM you were online making statements about what the U.S was doing? Do you deny it?

[newskin234]

I'm sure this kind of thing happens in America all the time. It's just that our government chooses not to tell us, or misinforms us. Oh well.

[Fabini]

Can a series of internet activities be tied back to one person with fidelity? Are you your IP address? Who is typing this note? Will this increase jobs for computer programmers?

Let's just sample everyone's DNA and get it over with.

[kittyonice]

Good questions everybody should be thinking about.

[machivellianX]

the govmint info. agencies apparently think that tracking online data is the holy grail, in some ways it is, but as a relative expert into this the potential for abuse is huge, not to mention that the integrity of a lot of matching between ip-addresses to people is completely unreliable. In my opinion the internet is too dynamic to hold people accountable for laws breached that are solely sourced through the internet. Tracking data is one thing, storing is another, trying to find what is relative is very difficult, it's nearly impossible. As people rely more and more on the internet we will witness "brazil" like scenarios more and more. Not really the type of world I want to live in, but it appears as though, thanks to our paranoid leaders we don't have much of a choice anymore.

[Sean 6399]

We could use a system like this to flag any and all "hate" speech so that the speaker can be properly investigated by the pre-crime division of the FBI.

It's a brave new hopeychangey world!

[TeeLolly]

Why not just send everyone to prison? Charges, guilt or innocence and all those details can be sorted out later when someone has time ...

[Fabini]

Better yet, make them all indentured servants by charging high interest and paying minimum wage. Then track them through the IRS & DMV.

[TeeLolly]

I guess the terr0r1sts are winning after all ...

[hypnotoad72]

Oh, this should be good.

I wish I was one of the people getting to review what's being found... :-D

90% of it would be porn or the S-word, anyway...

[liberalNmoderation]

Or the classic
"For f*cks sake!*

[TeeLolly]

I guess the terrorists are winning after all ...

[liberalNmoderation]

Orwell was right.