[ NNSquad ] UK government plans to track ALL web use: MI5 to install 'black box' spy devices to monitor British internet traffic

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

UK government plans to track ALL web use: MI5 to install 'black box'
spy devices to monitor British internet traffic

http://j.mp/WTZTlx  (Daily Mail)

   "UK spy agencies want to install 'black box' surveillance devices
    across the country's communications networks to monitor internet use,
    it emerged today.  A report by an influential committee of MPs tells
    how spooks are keen to implement a nationwide surveillance regime
    aimed at logging nearly everything Britons do and say online."

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This is one reason why I consider EU hysteria over harmless cookies --
and their extremely dangerous ideas like the "right to be 
forgotten" -- to be so hypocritical. At the same time they make so much noise
about these, they're pushing massive government surveillance of the
Internet and cell phones, and enormous data retention projects.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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