[Art]

According to this article, one is going to have to err on the side of caution
when emailing, at least in the UK for now.

Wonder what would happen is everyone were to encrypt their emails before
sending? Drive them bonkers? I guess the only private way to share information
is with another person, face to face. Hey Freedy...wanna meet at Salerno's for
lunch?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/15/2222209

[Dante]

The fact that we will be monitered by machines seems more bearable them being monitered by a human. At least, thats my opinion.

[Maviarab]

Just to say its not happened yet, and will not happen until Labour (insert whatever derogatory remarks you like in here) convince the EU that its legal and above board.

They wont. Plain and simple. So, Labour being the (insert tirades of abuse here) party that they are will sweep yet another law under the downing street carpet, and straight past whitehall's and the Lords house's eyes.

This will not be the first time Labour have under handed the country, its people or its own party members when it wants to pass a law they know will never be passed by the legal and proper procedure.

The one world is coming, and the Illuminati are watching...

[Freddy]

Doesn't sound good, but lunch at Salerno's does...

[Art]

The purpose of this Bill is to allow communications data capabilities for the prevention and detection of crime and protection of national security to keep up with changing technology by providing for the collection and retention of such data - including data not required for the business purposes of communications service providers; and to ensure strict safeguards continue to strike the proper balance between privacy and protecting the public.
The main elements of the Bill

The main elements of the Bill are:

    * modify the procedures for acquiring communications data and allow this data to be retained
    * transpose EU Directive 2006/24/EC on the retention of communications data into UK law



Keep in mind that much like has been said over this side of the big pond, to the effect:
Those who would trade a little liberty for a little freedom shall loose both and deserve neither!

BTW, Yes, Freddy, Salerno's is a great Italian eaterie...sort of like a sports bar on pepperoni and beer!

[Freddy]

Hmm, will have to wait and see I guess.  I imagine there will be a lot of opposition to it though, depends on how far they go.

Love Italian food...when I eventually get around to going to the US we will have to go there 

[Freddy]

This came up in the news on the front page.  We were talking about this kind of thing in a couple of places on the forum but I could only find this thread.

Anyways, it looks like the UK government dropped the idea of a huge database (yay)  in favour of this - so far it seems they only want to log contacts rather than content.

Have a read if you're interested :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8020039.stm

Personally I sometimes wish we had better ways of keeping an eye on the government rather than vice versa.

[Art]

Freddy,

I took this from the article as I think it says volumes...

"However, any legislation that requires individual communications providers to keep data on who called whom and when will need strong safeguards on access.

"It is simply not that easy to separate the bare details of a call from its content. What if a leading business person is ringing Alcoholics Anonymous, or a politician's partner is arranging to hire a porn video?

"There has to be a careful balance between investigative powers and the right to privacy."

Quite interesting indeed as NO ONE PERSON would become immune to being recorded. Good stuff!!

[Freddy]

Yes, interesting excerpt.  I imagine they will have to design some pretty remarkable data mining applications.  I know they dropped the database idea, but even this would still seem to require a hell of a lot of computing power and storage.