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UK government pays £19milion to UK comms to snoop

Kits

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The good old Register has found another reason why UK government are not worth the money they are paid to run the country. If they spent more time on looking after its citizens instead of spying on them in the name of terrorisum then we woujldn't be taxed as high, would have better secureity.

And now the brown stuff is going to hit the fan and the UK government is sitting right in the middle
A big thank you to the Earl of Northesk for his question that has exposed this:

UK government has paid £19 million to UK comms for snooping.


Is this the reason our government are not stopping or prosecuting BT for illegal activity since they are doing it also.
 
and that 19mil could hae gone somewhere more useful like into schools.. or the NHS could really use more dentists in the country, but no they would rather spend money criminalising us until we prove ourselves innocent.. its like taking CCTV too far.. without the images.
 
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which makes it worse, because l (we) never gave them permission to have access to possibly personal data.

l mentioned in another thread how profiling could be pretty incriminating my sister was doing a course on childcare she was online quite allot doing research, would the fact she spent 2 years doing random reseach about children label her as a paedophile? or would the fact some of us might like to look at adult sites once or twice a week get us arrested for importing porn into the country? and l do know someone who was arrested for that (he didnt remove it when he took his system into PC world once)

if this law goes ahead then warrents should be required and local councils SHOULD NOT have access just like if the law wanted access to ones home.
 
which makes it worse, because l (we) never gave them permission to have access to possibly personal data.

l mentioned in another thread how profiling could be pretty incriminating my sister was doing a course on childcare she was online quite allot doing research, would the fact she spent 2 years doing random reseach about children label her as a paedophile? or would the fact some of us might like to look at adult sites once or twice a week get us arrested for importing porn into the country?

Those things separately probably wouldn't make much difference (there are thousands if not millions of parents/childcare professionals/researchers/expectant parents/medics etc who would look at info on children for example.

Plus millions of people indulging in a bit of solo sex in front of their PC (since according to one or two of my friends, the police are all 'wan***s' there would be no-one to actually enforce this as they'd all be in prison!! ;) ).

But think on this:

Exactly the same scenario as you point out, but both people use the same computer. Now (as far as the snoops are concerned) one person is investigating children at the same time as looking at porn.

Alarm bells would surely ring!

Add in a decision to apply for a credit card with Virgin (something which got a friend of mine suspended whilts their techies investigated his use of work PCs FFS) and you go to prison for years.
 
exactly! in fact l have to admit l am a server admin at an adult forum and the fact l have to share an internet connection with ppl who do such research sometimes is worrying especially when lm given little reason as it is to trust outsiders to make proper deductions based upon facts.. rather than a few logged domains and a bucket load of spam.
 
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Yeah but remember its a government IT project, so it'll end up costing £1billion, and they will lose everyones details by sending an unencrypted CD through the mail.
 
l wonder how many losses they havent reported...
 
We should be content with what we have . . .

In most countries you would never hear about the personal data that has been lost. At least, in the UK most of these occurrences eventually come to light. We should be content with what we have, but keep building better security into it.

One mustn't grumble . . . . (says WHO?):D
 
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