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UK ISPs betray customers, collaborate on government surveillance
Well, as long as it isn't Just US in the USA, I feel better....
Britain's Communications Data Bill -- AKA the Snooper's Charter -- would effectively eliminate private communications in the UK, giving government and the police the power to spy on virtually everything you do online
(which is rapidly merging with everything you do, full stop).
The major ISPs in the UK have apparently been turned to the government's cause, and have been quietly supporting the bill,
which strips their customers of any semblance of privacy.
The government defends this proposal by saying that they're not intercepting "messages," only "envelopes."
That is, they'll get the subject lines, social graph data, who is talking, where, how often, and who replies, how long the messages are, and so on.
I like to imagine Alan Turing taking this approach to informational significance: "Mr Churchill, I'm sorry, there's no point in what you're asking us to do: all we can decode from the Nazis is who is sending messages, who receives them, what they're about, where they're sent from, how often they're sent, and how long they are. Nothing compromising."
(Then I imagine the ghost of Turing haunting Home Secretary Teresa May, who claims that none of that kind of data compromises Britons' privacy).
(which is rapidly merging with everything you do, full stop).
The major ISPs in the UK have apparently been turned to the government's cause, and have been quietly supporting the bill,
which strips their customers of any semblance of privacy.
The government defends this proposal by saying that they're not intercepting "messages," only "envelopes."
That is, they'll get the subject lines, social graph data, who is talking, where, how often, and who replies, how long the messages are, and so on.
I like to imagine Alan Turing taking this approach to informational significance: "Mr Churchill, I'm sorry, there's no point in what you're asking us to do: all we can decode from the Nazis is who is sending messages, who receives them, what they're about, where they're sent from, how often they're sent, and how long they are. Nothing compromising."
(Then I imagine the ghost of Turing haunting Home Secretary Teresa May, who claims that none of that kind of data compromises Britons' privacy).
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