http://www.getsonic.com Internet News and the Online World Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.getsonic.com/internet-privacy-in-the-uk-37 http://www.getsonic.com/internet-privacy-in-the-uk-37#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:02:25 +0000 Josh http://www.getsonic.com/?p=37 The UK government will soon be debating laws for internet service providers and telecommunication companies to keep records of all internet activity for a year creating concerns by many people over privacy.
These plan are part of a government initiative, called the “Intercept Modernisation Programme.”
The data would be made available to government bodies without the need to be approved by a court judge and would be accessible by 635 public bodies including the police, firebragade, financial authorities and many more.
These measures go against the privacy laws of the European Union would allow only for the storing of data for as long as necessary. (which seems fairly vague and pretty open to interpretaton in my opinion.)
These measures are being introduced under the guise of protection against terrorism, however, any internet savy users and presumably terrorists would know that users could still use Virtual Private Networks VPNs (such as Xerobank and ipredator) which encrypt the data across the network making storing the information useless. The result will be a database where innocent individuals will have their data stored with open access to a wide variety of government organisations without their knowledge. Given the government’s poor record on data security in the past and the number of organisations which will have access to the data, there is also the possibility that the data may fall into the wrong hands. Time to purchase a tinfoil hat I think.

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