Comments on: The UK government’s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, destroy business, liberty and must be stopped – start making placards

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:05:39 +0000

england will kill its internet start ups by being nazi for no reason

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NWO. « Spiky Hair and Glasses — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:32:34 +0000

[...] haven’t been watching the news lately, but I came across this article which talks about the UK government plans to use a cinema-style ratings system for websites and [...]

By: grumpy

grumpy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:26:14 +0000

welcome to the real world, wake up and smell the burnt toast

the bad guys use other languages and handwritten notes.

the morons in charge cannot figure that out, or are only using it as an excuse to extend their powers.

witness the photos of “western china” that revealed the so-called terrorist attack at the start of the olympics to be a ruse actually perpetrated by the chinese military.

sometimes the call to “stand up and be counted” is a ruse to getting them all in one place to “bundle them off” – it worked in china…

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP

life follows art:
http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

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By: UK government will retain all email data for one year | BedroomPublishing.com

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:15:51 +0000

[...] TechCrunch added The government has plans for a bigger data retention scheme called the Interception Modernisation Programme involving one central database, gathering details on every text sent, e-mail sent, phone call made and website visited. Consultation on the plans is due to begin later this year. [...]

By: Kruse

Kruse — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:59:25 +0000

I am not a tekkie, but I am a Libertarian, so count me in on any rally. Happy to help organise it anyway I can. I am amazed how silent most people seem to be on this and other current issues of our civil liberties and their erosion. We have got to get together and shout!

By: Lib Dig Pig #6 – Politics Unlimited | UK politics news

Lib Dig Pig #6 – Politics Unlimited | UK politics news — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:03:23 +0000

[...] Labour’s ongoing attacks on net privacy have sparked outrage on the pages of TechCrunch – another highly dug story this week. As Mike Butcher writes, start making placards. [...]

By: Lib Dig Pig #6 | Liberal Democrat Voice

Lib Dig Pig #6 | Liberal Democrat Voice — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:55:42 +0000

[...] Labour’s ongoing attacks on net privacy have sparked outrage on the pages of TechCrunch – another highly dug story this week. As Mike Butcher writes, start making placards. [...]

By: Caroline Teunissen

Caroline Teunissen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:37:53 +0000

Mike

Let me know if I can do anything to help too.
It’s a real threat on our democracy if New Labour get this through. What is safe if we can’t protect our private from state?
The whole idea is against the very notion of democracy. My fear is that the general populus of this country will sleep walk into this giving away more of our civil freedoms to an authoritian government.

So demonstrations / online activity .. count me in!

By: Why we need to stop the data retention proposals » the billblog

Why we need to stop the data retention proposals » the billblog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:27:57 +0000

[...] the whole piece, and it’s worth looking at Mike Butcher’s rant [...]

By: Join us at the Convention on Modern Liberty – Politics Unlimited | UK politics news

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:26:16 +0000

[...] – how different powers affect our liberties, uniting football fans, clubbers, Muslims and even technologists. – what can be done about [...]

By: Index on Censorship » Watching Me, Watching You

Index on Censorship » Watching Me, Watching You — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:59:13 +0000

[...] the technology sector has weighed in. A recent article by Mike Butcher, editor of the popular and important technology website Techcrunch UK, slammed them [...]

By: Alix

Alix — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:31:10 +0000

@AndyC

It definitely isn’t just a geek campaign. Correction: it definitely isn’t just a *techie* geek campaign. There are political geeks as well

By: Andy C

Andy C — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:13:10 +0000

IS there a campaign website yet? Should try and get on TV. Also need to make sure it doesn’t appear to be a *geek* campaign but something that effects everyone.

People should ask themselves would that want anyone they met not to see such personal data about them (put in terms of personal profiles, what they say etc), if they say no then they need to be shown that if that person works in the public sector it is quite likely that they will have access to it.

With the sheer number of people involved it highly dangerous too, at least one person in the chain will take money to get data for someone else – for sure. Secondly if I owned a company there is no way I’d want commercially sensitive information being intercepted by government and the people who are in government, it is such a great unknown as to where that data could potentially end up – take for example a local council which really wants to reject planning permission but has no grounds to do so – remembering that local councils already have used anti-terror laws to spy on people to check their bins and make sure they are within the attachment area for the school they are sending their children to.

By: Mick Budge

Mick Budge — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:42:01 +0000

Another idea thought up by idiots who have nothing better to do with their time. In the current economic climate no one wants to see this big brother approach being implemented. It will be probably good for the Post Office as terrorists will just revert to using the good old postal system or has the goverment got plans in place to open and read everyones mail – would not surprise me.

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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:31 +0000

[...] The UK government’s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, des… – The title pretty much says it all (though the rest of the article is also worth reading). [...]

By: Tom Heath’s Displacement Activities » Making My Placard: UK Email Retention Plans

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:22:09 +0000

[...] nothing much to add to this story - The UK government’s plans to retain email data and rate online content will cost too much, destroy… – except my support for any peaceful demonstrations that get planned. Just posting it here in case [...]

By: Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:23:45 +0000

Count me in for any protest. This is an invasive law that will curtail our freedoms and our children’s freedoms for years to come.

By: Alexander Will

Alexander Will — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:14:12 +0000

Great post Mike. It really is a slippery slope and if nothing is done now, such government action will soon become the “norm”. I am a dab hand with a pen and cardboard so primed and ready for some industrial scale placarding.

By: harvey

harvey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:02:46 +0000

more people need to sign this, if at least only to let them know we’re aware and opposed. how come no major politician or political party opposed to this; lib dems, green party, respect party etc ?

By: UK web innovation threatened by over-zealous regulation | socialmediainfluence.com

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:16:18 +0000

[...] web, not to mention putting a cramp in the side of citizens’ civil liberties. Mike Butcher at TechCrunch UK is quite rightly in a froth about it, saying: “…with one hand the government seeks to [...]

By: Darren Ferguson

Darren Ferguson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:56:37 +0000

+1 for any public rally/demonstration.

By: Louise Ferguson

Louise Ferguson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:10:36 +0000

Great post Mike.

Everyone can do their own thing to fight this, and they should do that, but to get a bum on a seat in the corridors of power to practically stop these kind of lunacies before they are rendered stone, a few quid to Open Rights Group is needed. ORG spends practically all its supporter funding on paying two people a not very impressive wage to do just that, all day long. Please make it a New Year resolution to put just a few quid ORG’s way over the year to ensure we can keep on doing it.

By: diamond jim

diamond jim — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:32:55 +0000

Does your Government own you?

By: john.jones.name

john.jones.name — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:45:17 +0000

what can be done about this ?

get your own email server and use SSL for all transports

simple

they look at everything on the wire if they want anyway so this is just a backup way of accessing data on you by using your own mail server and using SSL it means things stay private and business like

oh and please adopt DKIM…

regards

John ‘the email guy’ Jones

http://www.johnjones.me.uk