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U.K. to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
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| The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all
| user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace,
| and Bebo.
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| Vernon Coaker the U.K. Home Office security minister, on Monday said the EU
| Data Retention Directive, under which Internet service providers must store
| communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications
| such as those on social-networking sites and via instant-messaging services
| could also be monitored, he said.
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| "Social-networking sites such as MySpace or Bebo are not covered by the
| directive," said Coaker, speaking at a meeting of the House of Commons Fourth
| Delegated Legislation Committee. "That is one reason why the government (is)
| looking at what we should do about the Intercept(ion) Modernisation
| Programme, because there are certain aspects of communications which are not
| covered by the directive."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199107-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
The Tech Lab: Bruce Schneier
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| Welcome to the future, where everything about you is saved. A future where
| your actions are recorded, your movements are tracked, and your conversations
| are no longer ephemeral. A future brought to you not by some 1984-like
| dystopia, but by the natural tendencies of computers to produce data.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7897892.stm
British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations
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| Wikinews has learned that at least six of the United Kingdom's main Internet
| Service Providers (ISPs) have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms
| that are causing major problems for UK contributors on websites operated by
| the Wikimedia Foundation, amongst up to 1200 other websites.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations?curid=117771
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
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| The email is quoted by El Reg and states that "it has been decided that no
| Criminal Offence has been committed" and there was a "lack of Criminal Intent
| on behalf of BT and Phorm Inc in relation to the tests."
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| The best bit, though, is the revelation that BT customers would have given
| implied consent to being spied upon without their knowledge because the aim
| of the tests was to enhance product quality.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20759/1054/
Police close file on BT's trials
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| The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of
| BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7634210.stm
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
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