Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Comment on the UK Government’s Snooping Bill – Open Enterprise /ht @glynmoody

I would therefore urge you to respond to this crucially important consultation that will shape the future of not just digital life, but everyday life in the UK: if the current bill is passed, it will lead to total surveillance of every aspect of everyone’s lives in the UK – a truly chilling prospect, and one that is bound to be abused both by governments directly and indirectly others through corruption of officials (think what News International could have done with these new decentralised databases.) I will publish my own submission outlining why I think this bill is fundamentally misconceived and extremely dangerous for democracy in this country, in my next column.

via Comment on the UK Government’s Snooping Bill – Open Enterprise.

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One response to “Comment on the UK Government’s Snooping Bill – Open Enterprise /ht @glynmoody”

  1. Dave Walker

    I’m just prepping mine.

    As I expect many others will be covering the civil liberties line at least as well as I could, I’m focusing on why any solution within the proposed constraints would be impractical to implement, trivial to circumvent, an inhibitor to innovation and progress for the telecoms industry, and in general, a collective rod good only for beating the backs of those tasked with maintaining it in the face of massively asymmetric requirements in effort, being stacked against them.

    Oh, and they’ll be getting it as a .odt file. It’ll be much easier for them, from a digital curation perspective.

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