UK govt to monitor all internet traffic and telecoms

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:37 AM EDT

Article Source: news.zdnet.co.uk

technology, internet, government, security, uk, united-kingdom, privacy, traffic, spy, monitor, telecoms, govt, invasion-of-privacy

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Under the proposed Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), internet service providers (ISPs) would be required to link 'black boxes' to their servers to record all internet traffic, including details of emails, VoIP telephone conversations, instant messages and browsing habits. Telephone conversations would also be monitored.

The traffic data would then be siphoned into a centralised database, enabling the government to monitor all business and domestic internet and telephone communications. According to insiders, some ISPs have already been pitching to the Home Office to provide the 'black boxes' to record the data.

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D Jahns - ChoclatierDeleted

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Spaman

More big brother from an incompetent and corrupt regime

"Part of the problem is that the Home Office would be able to self-authorise to do any searches in the database, which is very dangerous indeed," said Errol. "At the moment, someone checks the access requests."

Self policing - never - they are already / still unfit to service what they do now - not to be trusted in any way

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3 votes

#2 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:52 AM EDT

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Dennis M Wright

This will probably never happen.

If it did it wouldn't work. All the baddies are sensible enough to encrypt all their traffic and/or use anonymisation technologies. They won't catch anyone. The whole thing is badly misguided.

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3 votes

#3 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:49 AM EDT

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Spaman

This will probably never happen.

If it did it wouldn't work. All the baddies are sensible enough to encrypt all their traffic and/or use anonymisation technologies. They won't catch anyone. The whole thing is badly misguided.

We'd like to think it will never happen - but people said the same thing about id cards, and these are coming in via the backdoor, with more going on in the background to make us have them....

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2 votes

#3.1 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:45 PM EDT

{"commentId":2204138,"authorDomain":"myriver"}

River-239955

So much for "behind closed doors". It's truly freaky stuff. Life is a stage we don't get paid to play.

It can be an efficient tool for kidnap victims, or insurance fraud. It's a cheaper alternative to probation/parole tracking. It can be used to enforce house arrests. It's relatively obvious, at this point, that it doesn't matter much if we don't care for it. It's an international affair these days.

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3 votes

#4 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:06 AM EDT

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Sedekka

They only want to legalize what they've been doing for years anyway. Arseholes. No peace for anyone.

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1 vote

#4.1 - Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:07 AM EDT

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JLTpa

Discuss the right to privacy here.

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#6 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:12 PM EDT

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