 thisnamecantbetaken says: The plan will need international cooperation since many of the new CSPs are based abroad, notably in the US."International cooperation"... as in global? Nice. .  They say the planned new legislation would apply only to communications data - such addresses and names - but not to the actual contents of the communications. Intercepting the contents would still need ministerial warrants.Warrants? For eavesdropping, spying, invasion of privacy and data collecting? AAAhahaha, good one! That is SO old school.  Clearly concerned about a public backlash against the plan, officials stress that the government is not building up a single central database containing personal information of everyone in the country.Sure. We believe you. Yessiree! We sure do. We even get to pay for it ourselves! Won't that be fun.  The internet...no control...no rules...free speech. A fascist's worst nightmare. Firefox users - check out TrackMeNot, an add-on that obscures your tracking data in clouds of meaningless data, rendering it unusable. Thanks for that tip, masbury! I'll check it out. It's a good idea for anonymous surfing, but would it help in this case? If you have an account on a social networking site, they already know you're there, your posts are there, your comments, ideas, thoughts etc. You can't scramble that. I don't think one's surfing history is the main problem here, but the connecting of personal data to specific accounts (and/or surfing history probably). If the spooks were just interested in "fighting crime", wouldn't an IP address be enough to catch people, if and when they do something wrong? Why the need for names and addresses and other personally identifiable information BEFORE any crime has been commit... *they're = their On the other hand, people could just hand over that information themselves. If you were a spook, and you wanted to be able to register everyone quickly and seamlessly and connect an IP with a name, how would you go about it?.Force them, as in the clip, or how about getting people to voluntarily, although naively, do it themselves somehow (under false pretences perhaps) and bingo, you're in business. Like this site for example. Register yourself in the name of "a commemorative list and time capsule" for a virtual "global warming'" museum. Hmm. Okaaay. Now, I'm not saying that site is anything sinister, or anything other than what it says it is, bu... I use Ask.com for most of my searching because they have a feaqture called "AskEraser" that, when turned on, deletes your search information from their servers (but not third-party servers). Every little bit helps, although it's my opinion that it's already too late to keep your personal information to yourself. I did run into a good situation, though with those grocery store discount cards. A store employee was carrying a bunch of cards to the service conter and dropped one. I picked it up and started using it - there's no name, no address and no personal information attached to it; it's just an empty number. I have never let a single person or state agency or government(s) hinder my words. Speak out. Don't worry. If you are not encouraging VIOLENCE or HATE, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. "The best protection for our freedoms is to speak out for them." Thomas Jefferson (US president, writer of the Declaration of Independence for the USA, and the author of the Virgina Charter of Religious Liberty...and an advocate against slavery) This is why I don't use Social Networking sites. They already sell your personal data to companies (illegally for many of their non-American members). The US is royally screwed when it comes to privacy, because until many other countries, they don't have the right to privacy enshrined in their constitution. I refuse to deal with any company that farms their accounting out to the US, because in most cases, they haven't set up sufficient defences to prevent my private information from being illegally give or sold to American Companies or the US Government. Speak freely, but keep your credit card number, passwords and usernames under a tight lid. Change this info/data now and then . (if not frequently....but I actually only change it now and then so can't preach what I don't do) But, alas...I think the cookies are catching up with us and someday someone will hack into Amazon, get everyone's data, and the Western World will fall apart. (Until it gets rebuilt again). |
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