Police 'to be given powers to view everyone's entire internet history'

More stupidity, waste of money and man power.

But we still have the terrorist laws which are a disgrace to this country, so no doubt this will get through.
 
I'm pretty sure they already have access to the data /anyway/ -- they just want to have some sort of legitimacy about it without having to disclose that they already have the data illegally. Like they give a fsck about privacy or rights or laws and stuff.

And my pet theory is that they have some dirt on Mrs May, which allows them to have her do and advocate for pretty much anything they want.
 
In all fairness, if someone was suspected of being a terrorist and constructing bombs I'd damn well want the police to be able to look into this before any suspected attack took place.

Granted VPN, onion routing and the dark net is where most of this would likely take place which wouldn't help the police any.
 
Stupid idea and impractical to implement. Would cost ISP's 100's of millions to implement. Storage providers would be wetting their pants at the thought of it.
Most likely massively illegal also.

And then technically, it's a piece of **** to bypass, so they'd be wasting every last penny.

Do the government not have any technical advisor's before they come up with these ridiculous ideas? 'yes, this week we've decided we'd like everybody's houses to be made of cheese, that'll work faultlessly'.

I'm all for them 'trying' to implement this and falling flat on their faces.
 
mors said:
Do the government not have any technical advisor's before they come up with these ridiculous ideas? 'yes, this week we've decided we'd like everybody's houses to be made of cheese, that'll work faultlessly'.

I'm all for them 'trying' to implement this and falling flat on their faces.
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Re: porn filters.
 
I'm not bothered about my browser history except for the hidden porn sub forum on here.

Not sure about the legality of some of those images.
 
byeo said:
Isn't that the key to the "dark web" or whatever it's called ?
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No it's a distributed anonymising network that was first developed by the Naval Research Laboratory in the US before being handed over to the public.

Calling it "the key to the dark web" is like calling a cracker or skiddie a hacker. It's a media label to sell stories / generate web hits and bring in that sweet sweet advertising revenue.

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The problem with this is, those committing illegal acts are already using means to circumvent this law. All it does is invade the privacy of the "innocent", can't wait till someone hacks Virgin Media or BT and releases the browsing history of thousands of people.

You may not be doing anything illegal online but I do plenty I wouldn't talk to my family about.
 
They obviously already have the ability to monitor individual users as they have front doors in to all the ISP. This attempt is just a way like the other phone related legislation, to make legal their currently illegal activities. Not to mention the large dragnet intercepts that take all the data...
 
One thing which would bother me was if the police used the browsing history to discredit someone rather than bring a criminal case against him. Especially if his browsing habits were within the law but seen as unsavoury by other people.
 
Belly said:
One thing which would bother me was if the police used the browsing history to discredit someone rather than bring a criminal case against him. Especially if his browsing habits were within the law but seen as unsavoury by other people.
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Agreed. Midget porn may be legal but doesn't mean to say I want my work colleagues and family to know about it.
 
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