Facebook and twitter to get monitored!

[Richie]

Not to sound like I'm advocating facism or invasion of privacy, but surely if you have nothing illegal to hide, you wont have to worry?

I don't care.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

I have nothing to fear as I have nothing to hide as well however anything I do that I wish to remain private between myself or my family/friends is just that - PRIVATE. Sometimes this stuff is just no one ELSE'S BUSINESS.

For the people that agree with Robbo et al, being passive about controls like this will simply allow the authorities to keep adding more controls and monitoring in your PERSONAL life until, before you know it, you no linger have a PRIVATE LIFE.


Robbo - are any of your social network accounts open to the public or do you use the privacy controls to lock it down? You have nothing to hide so are you happy if your employer can browse your social pictures or posts to see if you bring their company into disrepute or slate them?

If you think they'd willingly stop at just using it against the bogeymen of terror and child porn then you're either very misguided or an idiot. Probably the former.

I agree with this point, which other posters have brought up. It seems that, for some people, if you want to make a point about something and you want to make it basically "unarguable", you just chuck in the CP angle and everyone feels obligated to agree with you....

 

[smit101]

shock horror as virtual world catches up with the real world?

Can anyone explain why they think activities on the internet should be treated differently from activities that happen in the real world?

I wasn't aware I was being monitored in real life, hang on, let me just check under the bed.................................... nope, no-one there and no bugging devices as far as I can tell. You sound paranoid.

 

[Robbo]

I have nothing to fear as I have nothing to hide as well however anything I do that I wish to remain private between myself or my family/friends is just that - PRIVATE. Sometimes this stuff is just no one ELSE'S BUSINESS.

For the people that agree with Robbo et al, being passive about controls like this will simply allow the authorities to keep adding more controls and monitoring in your PERSONAL life until, before you know it, you no linger have a PRIVATE LIFE.

Robbo - are any of your social network accounts open to the public or do you use the privacy controls to lock it down? You have nothing to hide so are you happy if your employer can browse your social pictures or posts to see if you bring their company into disrepute or slate them?

I don't see the relevance of that.

The authorities want to be able to monitor it, not employers. So unless you think the authorities are going to start sharing your information with your employer, that's a bit of a pointless argument.

I doubt anyone sensible would post anything incredibly sensitive on Facebook/Twitter anyway, private or not. Having said that, I doubt terrorist attacks are organised on Facebook/Twitter either, so I don't think this will achieve a great deal. I suppose it means they could monitor the general activities of suspicious people more easily though.

 

[Dolph]

I wasn't aware I was being monitored in real life, hang on, let me just check under the bed.................................... nope, no-one there and no bugging devices as far as I can tell. You sound paranoid.

You sound either ill-informed or deliberately deceitful.

These proposals are extensions to existing wiretap, interception and record retention rules. They are not proposing to monitor everyone, only to have the facility to monitor anyone via social networking in the same way as they can already monitor phone calls, letters and even person to person interaction if they have grounds to do so.

I just can't understand why people think the internet should be subject to different rules to the real world.

 

[Uther]

Don't they already do this anyway?

 

[Belmit]

I have a secret... I've been monitoring Facebook and Twitter for years.

 

[Cosimo]

I have a secret... I've been monitoring Facebook and Twitter for years.

Looks like you’ll soon be paid for doing it.