Queens Speech Confirms Expansion of UK CCDP Internet Snooping Law

[.Griff.]

As expected the UK government has used today's Queens Speech (State Opening of Parliament) to outline the revival of a £2bn plan to expand the reach of existing ISP based internet snooping laws (data retention) to log a much bigger slice of your online activity (e.g. Skype and Facebook access); regardless of whether or not you ever committed a crime.

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[zappaDPJ]

 

[pctech]

Only a matter of time before this is abused.

[armadillo]

With any luck, one of the first "abuses" will be hackers using it to reveal something about some government minister which he or she would rather nobody knew.

[nowster]

The problem for small ISPs such as IDNet is the burden of purchasing extra equipment to perform this logging, the cost of which will inevitably have to be passed on to us the customers.

[pctech]

Not to mention the racks to house it, the power to power it, the extra switch ports needed to network the storage.......

[Rik]

And the stupidity of the law...

[mervl]

Wouldn't it be nice if the government apologised for screwing up the country and announced by way of atonement that they would not pass any new laws for the rest of the parliament, nor impose any new costs on business or consumers as their contribution to improve our economy.

Ah, I'm dreaming again, and of course the devil always makes work for his (civil) servants to do . . .

[pctech]

If they weren't passing laws how else could they justify their salary and those monster expenses.

[armadillo]

I do not remember any MPs claiming for monsters. 

[Technical Ben]

Not to mention the racks to house it, the power to power it, the extra switch ports needed to network the storage.......

...and the poor guy who has to check 100 billion packets of data. 

Oh wait, they don't expect any checks do they.

[nowster]

Technical Ben's sig... there's an /etc directory on most (if not all) unixes, containing such files as "/etc/hosts", and the reason MS has one in Windows is because some of their TCP/IP stack originally came from BSD Unix.

[mervl]

If they weren't passing laws how else could they justify their salary and those monster expenses.

Reminds me of the old one about why MPs are like dogs: they both pass a load of cr*p.

[Technical Ben]

Technical Ben's sig... there's an /etc directory on most (if not all) unixes, containing such files as "/etc/hosts", and the reason MS has one in Windows is because some of their TCP/IP stack originally came from BSD Unix.

Fair enough. It was a personal observance. I thought only silly users named folders like "etc", not companies! Half of mine are called "stuff" and "more stuff" and "things". Strangely I know exactly which ones contain my artwork, game saves, work files, software patches etc.