Big Brother is watching you.

You will be glad to know as of Today the fact that you have visited my blog is now recorded by your ISP and stored for the next 12 months. This is just in case you are an international terrorist who has mistaken my blog for a site that contains fiendish plots to bring down the UK government. Now I am all for bringing down this bloody awful government but I wish to do so via the normal democratic process. I am not saying I am somehow special by the way, in fact all of your web activity is being recorded by your ISP. And not just your web browsing but also your email, in fact every email you receive or send from now on will be logged and recorded. This is in addition to your mobile phone activity which is already being recorded by HM Government.

So, do you feel safer knowing that all your electronic communications are now being monitored, knowing that Gordon “IAM” Brown will be able to check back to see what You Tube films you have watched, who you are talking to on face-book, what news articles you are viewing on the BBC. Or, like me, do you feel this is just another nail in the coffin for freedom and privacy in this country. Will this actually be used for anti terrorist behaviour, or, like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers act, be used by local authorities to track down “Serious Criminals” such as those who would send their children to the wrong school. Perhaps a disgruntled and violent policeman will use it to trace his abused parner after she has gone into hiding. The one thing I can absolutely guarantee is this power will not once be used to trace or convict a terrorist. The truth is that criminals will hide their web activity behind web proxies and false email accounts so the only people being recorded is you and me, well as you read this it is actually just you. Feel safer?

So what next for Gordon, what new goodies does this paranoid PM have in store for us in the future? perhaps we should all have cameras in our houses, just like ID cards, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear, and I am sure most parents will be happy that some stranger in a CCTV monitoring room is there to watch your children getting dressed for bed, ensuring no harm comes to then. well what do you think? sounds okay doesn’t it? will you sleep safer at night under the ever watching eye of big brother?

BBC Article : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7985339.stm

Correction, It has been brought to my attention that the BBC News article was incorrect (it has now been corrected) and Mr B will not be collecting our web history, just our emails and phone calls, so that is okay then! 

This entry was posted on 06/04/2009 at 12:08 pm and is filed under Politics, Privicy, Technology, ID Cards, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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