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Big Brother UK plc - out to get you? Or am I paranoid
Renegade:
Internet service providers having to store for a year all details of online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient of a communication and the location of the device from which it was made.-Carol Haynes (December 11, 2012, 09:28 AM)
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We've had this in .dk for several years now - every connection must log {src,dst}{ip,port} as well as timestamp, and a full packet dump of every... dunno, 1000th packet or something. It's something of a privacy violation, and utterly useless for police work - and costs the ISPs a truckload of money, both for paying database consultants (both storing and capturing that amount of data isn't trivial), expensive whOracle licenses, and a fair amount of hardware. It's insane.
Oh, and superfluous. The Danish PET have other much more efficient ways to intercept the data streams... and so have the NSA, obviously.
-f0dder (December 13, 2012, 03:30 AM)
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I'm kind of wondering if they could get away with some kind of a shiny front end, and have nothing in the back end, then if they're ever asked for data, just plead incompetence. :P ;D
Carol Haynes:
How about some turn about here?
How about less state secrets?
-Renegade (December 13, 2012, 02:56 AM)
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That's why we now have the Freedom of Information Act - which basically acts as a gateway across anything the governemtn doesn't want you to see (yet more double speak).
She's a complete moron to try and peddle off that crap. The entire premise is false.
-Renegade (December 13, 2012, 02:56 AM)
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Rest of the sentence is superfluous.
The only person who is more moronic is Michael Gove!
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