'Are email records a step too far?
BBC Have Your Say: Are email records a step too far
Internet Service Providers will have to keep details about every email sent or received in the UK for a year. Is this a fair price to help combat crime and terror?
The firms will have to store the information under the government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) and make it available to any public body which makes a lawful request. That could include police, local councils and health authorities.
The Earl of Northesk, a Conservative peer on the House of Lords science and technology committee, said it meant anyone's movements could be traced 24 hours a day.
But the Home Office said the data was a vital tool for investigation and intelligence gathering.
Do you feel that your privacy is threatened by this move? Are you reassured by the idea that it might help fight crime and terror? Is there another way for this to be managed?
Published: Friday, 9 January, 2009, 10:29 GMT 10:29 UK'
Following on from yesterdays post regarding police hacking our PC's, this, from the BBC, demonstrates how little the UK public actually understands such things as computers, the Internet and cyber-security, how governments and the law enforcement agencies operate, or this country's and Europe's history.
Biggest worry though is they are generally happy with this situation.
Knowledge might make you feel uncomfortable, but Ignorance is not bliss.
What I did note, both in the HYS introduction and in the story linked to the page, that there was no mention of Key logging software being placed on our PC's, merely concentrating on email security.
If you have a keylogger on your PC it doesn’t matter if you encrypt, scramble or boil you email, every key press you have made has already been logged, saved and sent out to the hacker.
'They' don't need to go to your ISP for anything.
But this subject was not even touch.
The ability and, even more frightening, the legal authority to place these devices onto our computers are a bigger threat than the proposals regarding email.
Would you like this sort of software on your GP's NHS computer system?
Or would you like your religious/political or social views being recorded, without your consent, to be scrutinised, judged and action towards sanctioned?
Would you like you’re industrial, artistic or business future assets broadcast to potential rivals or enemies?
These are just a few of the dangers that we face from these draconian measures implemented to defeat problems that our political servants have manufactured.
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