Or the Feds are the ones running the VPN's
Police 'to be given powers to view everyone's entire internet history'
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Or the Feds are the ones running the VPN's
So the police will have access to something Google has had for years.
Fine by me.
Infact, I doubt this would mean any changes in what's already being logged. It just means the police can get it. Your ISP already has every piece of data and every site you have visited logged anyway.
Fine by me.
Infact, I doubt this would mean any changes in what's already being logged. It just means the police can get it. Your ISP already has every piece of data and every site you have visited logged anyway.
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I've always considered a website to be the equivalent of a shop and the internet as the equivalent of a road to get to the shop. Using that analogy this is like someone standing on each rpad and outside each shop asking to see my Id card and writing down what I was doing. Welcome to the the land of the free 
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Another case of government big brother watching you.
Soldato
I don't think this will make much difference. Remember that Mark Bridger guy who murdered April Jones a couple of years back? The court was able to go through his Google history and found incriminating search queries e.g. "naked children".
2 less people who will never call the Police for anything (right?) Thank-you for opting out of this public service to leave more time for decent people *thumbs-up*
Yes that's exactly what I meant. Do you have no concerns at all that police won't use these powers in ways that they aren't intended to be used? Because history would dictate otherwise. I mean why stop at using it to look at suspects when you realise there are limitless uses in being able to discredit people critical of the way you may have handled certain situations by leaking to the press that they enjoy porn of a certain German disposition?
I do not feel that police departments are sufficiently well funded or trained to be able to keep this incredibly personal information secure.
I do not feel that police departments are sufficiently well funded or trained to be able to keep this incredibly personal information secure.
I wouldn't waste my time contacting the Police if I got burgled or mugged if that makes me indecent then that's too bad. Do they give crime numbers over Skype just for insurance purposes?
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I thought Labour already implemented this years ago.
Why would you waste time getting a reference of insurance. Live your life without the Police. You are not getting a reference without making out a crime, so if you want one, get used to 'wasting your time' with the Police.
I think you watch too many movies.... Police will have ACCESS to the data. I cannot see a situation where they will store it themselves. Access to said data will have sufficient safeguarding, application/review processes, auditing and otherwise. The same for any other data covered by Data Protection (CCTV et al)
You seem to think it will just all be accessed as and when, for any person, for any purpose by a computer in the staff canteen. The only people who would likely access it routinely will be branches of intelligence/security. Not 'The Police' that you hate so much.
I've always considered a website to be the equivalent of a shop and the internet as the equivalent of a road to get to the shop. Using that analogy this is like someone standing on each rpad and outside each shop asking to see my Id card and writing down what I was doing. Welcome to the the land of the free
Then your view of the internet is your issue.
Every hop you make through every device is logged. The only reason logs are deleted is capacity.
There already is someone writing down your ID at each turn you make. People just don't realise it.
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Nothing to hide, so not particularly bothered. It is sad how monitored everything has become though.
If it's to stop terrorism then why is there a 12 month limit?
What research/proof is there that after 12 months your data isn't important?
Why must we monitor everyone when in reality there aren't that many people doing dodgy stuff?
Are the police and politicians going to be monitored too?
But they want to store everything. Not just logs, but the contents of e-mails and messages.
Based on that logic, you wouldn't mind a camera in each of your rooms at home?
What research/proof is there that after 12 months your data isn't important?
Why must we monitor everyone when in reality there aren't that many people doing dodgy stuff?
Are the police and politicians going to be monitored too?
But they want to store everything. Not just logs, but the contents of e-mails and messages.
Based on that logic, you wouldn't mind a camera in each of your rooms at home?
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I don't get naked or have sex on the Internet - then again, it doesn't stop a lot of people
That's quite an interesting concept to digest.
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It'll be interesting to see the practical application of the storage of all the internet history and contents of every person in the uk is going to pan out, that's gonna be a lot of hard drives that the goverment won't pay for.
Then god forbid the processing power required to do anything more than just pull up specific individuals data, which ofc means that unless you're of interest to the police nobody's going to see it anyway, which tbh simply makes the police slightly more informed about the people they're looking at as opposed to actually being able to use it to track/predict potential criminals/terrorists before they commit crimes.
Then god forbid the processing power required to do anything more than just pull up specific individuals data, which ofc means that unless you're of interest to the police nobody's going to see it anyway, which tbh simply makes the police slightly more informed about the people they're looking at as opposed to actually being able to use it to track/predict potential criminals/terrorists before they commit crimes.
Hmmmm.