Thursday, June 21, 2012

British Government Building Gestapo

Unless you are a criminal, then you’ve nothing to worry about.’’ 

I'm no longer going to compare the modern western police state with Nazi Germany anymore because it would be a disservice to the Nazis. What the "free" West has done in the wake of the 9/11 false flag operation would make Hitler (the image, not the man) shit his pants.

 RelatedWhy Bother Voting in Britain?

Or anywhere else these days. 

"Britain unveils electronic mass surveillance plan" by Raphael Satter  |  Associated Press, June 15, 2012

LONDON - British authorities unveiled an ambitious plan on Thursday to log details about every Web visit, e-mail, phone call, or text message in the United Kingdom - and in a sharply worded editorial the nation’s top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists 

And you thought the cameras on every street corner were bad?

The government insists it is not after content.  

As if that mattered.

It promises not to read the body of e-mails or eavesdrop on phone calls without a warrant.  

Another government promise, huh?

But the surveillance proposed in the government’s 118-page draft bill would provide authorities a remarkably rich picture of their citizens’ day-to-day lives, tracking nearly everything they do online, over the phone, or even through the post.

All that thumping you here is the carcass of Orwell whirling away in the coffin.

All that data would be kept for up to a year - ready for browsing whenever anyone in authority wanted it.  

Meaning they will keep it forever because these guys never throw anything away unless it implicates them in crimes.

In some cases, the bill envisages monitoring the information in real time.

Home Office Secretary Theresa May said in an editorial published ahead of the bill’s unveiling that only evil-doers should be frightened.

“Our proposals are sensible and limited,’’ she wrote in The Sun, the country’s top-selling daily. “They will give the police and some other agencies access to data about online communications to tackle crime, exactly as they do now with mobile phone calls and texts. Unless you are a criminal, then you’ve nothing to worry about from this new law.’’ 

Isn't that one of Murdoch's papers

Yeah, just what the British need: more hacking and spying (legal when it's government).

Yet plenty of people were worried, including a senior lawmaker from May’s governing Conservative Party.

“This is a huge amount of information, very intrusive to collect on people,’’ David Davis, one of the proposal’s most outspoken critics, told BBC radio. “It’s not content, but it’s incredibly intrusive.’’

Human rights defenders were aghast. Privacy group Big Brother Watch said the proposal risked turning Britain into a “nation of suspects.’’ Civil rights organization Liberty said the law would mean the “indiscriminate stockpiling of private data.’’

Authorities and civil libertarians have been debating the plan for weeks, but Thursday marked the first time the government itemized exactly what kinds of activity it wanted to track.

The bill would force providers - companies such as the BT Group PLC or Virgin Media Inc. - to log where e-mails, tweets, Skype calls, and other messages were sent from, who was sending them, who they were sent to, and how large they were.  

What's next, crawling up your ass?

Details of file transfers, phone calls, text messages, and instant conversations, such as those carried over BlackBerry Messenger, would also be recorded.  

Can they hear this all the way over there?

The bill demands that providers collect IP addresses, details of customers’ electronic hardware, and subscriber information, including names, addresses, and payment information.

What May did not mention in her editorial - and the Home Office left off its press release - was that the government also is seeking to keep logs of citizens’ Internet history, giving officials access to the browsing habits of roughly 60 million people - including sensitive visits to medical, dating, or pornography websites.

Prefer to send mail the old-fashioned way? That would be monitored, too.  

Gee, GOOD THING YOU BRITS are SWIMMING IN MONEY and NOT FACING ANY SOCIAL SERVICE CUTS or anything! 

See: U.K. Elections and Economy

Oh.

Officials say they need all that information to stay on top of a rapidly-changing technological landscape. Britain’s online child protection agency said Thursday it was missing out on a quarter of the traffic used by child pornography networks. In an editorial in the Times of London entitled “Trust me, I need to know about your e-mails,’’ Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said the collection of communications data played a role in 95 percent of serious crime operations.

The measure remains a draft bill and is subject to change before it is presented to Parliament.

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There is one hopeful sign amidst all this, dear readers. 

It shows the FANTASTIC LEVEL of FEAR FELT by GOVERNMENT regarding the TRUTH and the PEOPLE since they see the need to be looking over your shoulder as you are reading this!!!  

Update: London Olympics 2012 Illuminati Conspiracy?

Maybe something like this to be blamed on them? 

Won't the Gestapo put a stop to it?