Every email and website to be stored

[cory777]

Source: Telegraph

Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans.

It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.

Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.

The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html

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[madrchsod]

1. that`s a shit load of storage and a nuke plant to power it....

i thought the uk was broke.....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. 1984 was prophecy

What's next? Thought police?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Funny you should ask.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking.

With the entire Internet and thousands of databases for a brain, the device will be able to respond almost instantaneously to complex questions posed by intelligence analysts. As more and more data is collected—through phone calls, credit card receipts, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, GPS tracks, cell phone geolocation, Internet searches, Amazon book purchases, even E-Z Pass toll records—it may one day be possible to know not just where people are and what they are doing, but what and how they think.

The system is so potentially intrusive that at least one researcher has quit, citing concerns over the dangers in placing such a powerful weapon in the hands of a top-secret agency with little accountability.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/nsa-police.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Why am I not surprised

Next the office of fore crime, (Phillip k Dick)

Why do I bother with sici fi

[groundloop]

8. Could the biggest computer network in the world figure out Sarah Palin's thoughts ???

Those poor computers would have all their 0's and 1's sucked dry by that black hole of neural activity.

[askeptic]

12. Naw - Think my old gaming system could do it

- not that much there

[sadbear]

3. There was a time when we were able to communicate without leaving a papertrail

[texastoast]

10. We still can

It's called speaking face to face in a remote forest.

Not quite as practical as a cell phone, however.

Or perhaps it's more practical.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Time to leave bots running on your PC's refreshing the raunchiest porn sites you can find.

All day, every day.

Fill your logs up with that, you bastards.

[cutlassmama]

11. great idea!

[struggle4progress]

7. It's from The Telegraph, an unreliable fishwrap

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. it's a Conservative paper spreading bad tales about the Conservative government

Interesting for that reason alone, perhaps, but I have yet to look at the spin they try to put on it beyond the quoted bits.

[snooper2]

9. It was already being stored...

stupid tools...

Media isn't from phone conversations isn't stored though.

[JCMach1]

14. Encrypt... that is all

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Will people be able to request copies of e-mails they deleted by accident?

That would be the upside.