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

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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Its about the only use for it, without biometrics and a trusted hardware platform, etc. it would be incredibly difficult to prove who was actually at the keyboard anyone upto no good can hide what they are doing in so many different ways its silly - none the least via hijacking someone elses device, "wardriving" poorly secured/unsecured wifi, etc.

At face value the whole thing is a ridiculous waste of time by people who don't understand the internet.
 
I cant see this being beneficial to anyone. As it has been mentioned, anyone using the web for suspicious activities has half a dozen ways to avoid detection. An automated filter to check peoples histories wont return anything substantial and doing it manually will waste a ton of manpower.

All i see this doing is opening up another way in which people can take advantage of the average users personal information and browsing history.

The average cost of a name and address is 1 pence per person in the mail-order industry (currently the price at Abacus the name list company).
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
I'm sure if little Ahmed wants to read the anarchist's cookbook he's not just going to hurrrr durrrr it into Google search.
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Well, there have been some prosecutions based on that kind of scenario, which tends to suggest that existing powers are sufficient.
But that is never a reason not to try to bring in a draconian power 'just in case'.
 
mors said:
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.
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That's what I thought. It's just like the banning of sites like Pirate Bay. If you know how to use torrents, then you're going to know how to use a proxy too. It was completely pointless.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
This makes me feel very uncomfortable.
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Think about the poor sod that reads your browser history :D.


Seriously though with companies like talk talk getting hacked it's sincerly worrying that said data will get leaked. Imagine the fallout that could happen if you were able to search a database of people's browsing habits.

Nothing I do is illegal but I certainly don't want people to know what I look at.
 
Mynight said:
Think about the poor sod that reads your browser history :D.


Seriously though with companies like talk talk getting hacked it's sincerly worrying that said data will get leaked. Imagine the fallout that could happen if you were able to search a database of people's browsing habits.

Nothing I do is illegal but I certainly don't want people to know what I look at.
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I feel for anyone who has to manually read through/try to understand mine between the sheer volume and diversity of subject matter.
 
glen8 said:
TOR isn't the dark web

Nobody on here wants to visit the dark web. Seriously, it's an utter evil vile place.
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Only if you want it to be. It's a fascinating place. You don't immediately get spammed with child porn, murder and drugs when you go on there :rolleyes:

Avenged7Fold said:
I cant see this being beneficial to anyone. As it has been mentioned, anyone using the web for suspicious activities has half a dozen ways to avoid detection. An automated filter to check peoples histories wont return anything substantial and doing it manually will waste a ton of manpower..
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Exactly. I'd say it just goes to show how behind the government is in terms of actually understanding the internet or how misinformed they are, but then I don't know enough about who makes these laws/policies to comment really.
 
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not enough details given and the title is rather misleading


also the example from the police is utter balls:

“Five years ago, [a suspect] could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit.”
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I'm not sure WTF that has to do with websites visited - if they want to know about banking activity then ISP records won't help much, they need access to the transactions on that account.
 
Mr-White said:
The more the internet gets monitored and filtered it's just going to force more underground.

MW
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That's one future, but there could easily be another. Where encryption is banned (all encrypted packets are dropped by your ISP), and all data is monitored.
 
Next they bust u for card sharing or streaming via kodi etc based on ure history.

Seriously, its pretty much tantamount to someone following you.
 
FoxEye said:
That's one future, but there could easily be another. Where encryption is banned (all encrypted packets are dropped by your ISP), and all data is monitored.
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Wont happen. The economy would collapse without encryption, no internet payments would be a humongous hit in this day and age.
 
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