Govt to monitor everyone's browsing!

Emp_Fab

How did I miss this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/35455343

Theresa May is pushing a bill to force ISPs to keep records of everyone's browsing for the govt to be able to monitor what we're all up to.

Orwell's vision is slowly coming true 32 years late.

Jalapeno

Hope they get a big disc !

speshul91

And a shit ton of tissues.

Sporky

And brain-bleach.

speshul91

Sporky;956351" said:

And brain-bleach.

Have a wiz, I forgot your midget porn obsession.

Sporky

So had I!

scrumhalf

So, it's a big government IT project, then.

I'm more scared that a monster will leap out of the mug of tea currently in front of me and suck my brains out.

chillidoggy

A government IT project, you say?

I think we can all rest easy. It'll be years late, seriously overbudget, and unfit for purpose. I'd be more worried if the wife did the monitoring .

PC_Dave

Nothing to worry about here.

Online Music Shops.
Amazon.
The Fretboard.
Porn.

There you are, Mr Govt, saved you the hassle.

Heartfeltdawn

Emp_Fab said:

Theresa May is pushing a bill to force ISPs to keep records of everyone's browsing for the govt to be able to monitor what we're all up to.

Somewhere in Chesham, there's the smell of panic. 

Sporky

I've just bought shares in all the hard drive manufacturers.

Mark_R

chillidoggy said:

A government IT project, you say?

I think we can all rest easy. It'll be years late, seriously overbudget, and unfit for purpose. I'd be more worried if the wife did the monitoring .

I'd probably be divorced by now if she did!

PolarityMan

If the government will reimburse data retention costs then I will start a company that uses engraving on gold bullion to store the records.

boogieman

I wouldn't worry. If you're of any remote interest to the government you're already being monitored.

speshul91

Sporky;956435" said:

I've just bought shares in all the hard drive manufacturers.

I went for the ssd shares.

Sporky

Ha! You think they'll buy current technology?

I'm doubling down on tape drives and zipdisks.

octatonic

Utterly pointless.

It is like they don't understand how a VPN works.

stickyfiddle

octatonic said:

Utterly pointless.

It is like they don't understand how a VPN works.

It is precisely that they don't understand how a VPN works. 

I'm loving all this talk of banning encryption, as if they can enforce that when, by definition, they wouldn't be able to tell who or where the people using the encryption are located, let alone what they're doing. 

I know people who work with government on this stuff and they're advised very well, but the policymakers completely ignore (or likely, don't actually understand) all that advice.

Sporky

Video Porn Naughtiness?

Skodadad

Hope they don't have a low boredom threshold, cbeebies is the primary bandwidth hog here. That and YouTube videos of guitar lessons for simpletons

digitalscream

octatonic said:

Utterly pointless.

It is like they don't understand how a VPN works.

...it's like you've forgotten the bit of the anti-terror laws which states you have to hand over any encryption keys on request from the authorities, or face mandatory prison time