UK surveillance plan to go ahead (BBC) {monitor ALL Internet use?}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Dominic Casciani
BBC News

The Home Office says it will push ahead with plans to ask communications firms to monitor all internet use.

Ministers confirmed their intention despite concerns and opposition from some in the industry.

The proposals include asking firms to retain information on how people use social networks such as Facebook.

Some 40% of respondents to the Home Office's consultation opposed the plans - but ministers say communication interception needs to be updated.

Both the police and secret security services have legal powers in the UK to intercept communications in the interests of combating crime or threats to national security.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8350660.stm

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Britain is one step ahead of USA re: fascist behavior.

Brits cannot legally buy knives, for god's sakes.
Cameras everywhere.

[truebrit71]

3. The irony that it is the old 'left-wing' party that brought this to be..

...is amazing...

We all thought that bitch Thatcher was bad, she wasn't a stitch on the Tony and Gordon show...

[Uncle Joe]

2. I vaguely remember an old British program with a man trying to escape his town or environment and

this giant white bouncing ball that followed him everywhere?

For some reason this article makes me think of that program.

Thanks for the thread, eppur_se_muova.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. The Prisoner?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

Give it time, they'll get there.;)

[Uncle Joe]

5. Yes! This is why I love D.U. and here's a picture of Rover.

Thanks for the reminder and peace to you, eppur_se_muova:hi:

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Shucks, 'tweren't nothin'. :blush:

:blush:

(Pssst. Prisoner Number Six is a DUer. Seriously.)

[mamaleah]

7. ....

But I thought they were so much more advanced than we?

[librechik]

8. Remember: Orwell wrote 1984 about British Society

of his own era. It's not surprising they have become more and more surveillance oriented--now that the technology is so available and opaque...

[HipChick]

9. I'm sure the long history of domestic terrorists aka IRA contributed..