On the BBC website; Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has backed down from plans to compile a single government run internet database but instead, Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
The new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to social network sites.
Communication service providers (CSPs) will be asked to record internet contacts between people, but not the content, similar to the existing arrangements to log telephone contacts.
The security services already deploy advanced techniques to monitor telephone conversations or intercept other communications, but this is not used in criminal trials.
Ms Smith said that while the new system could record a visit to a social network, it would not record personal and private information such as photos or messages posted to a page.
"What we are talking about is who is at one end [of a communication] and who is at the other - and how they are communicating," she said.
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And then what happens when they decide to turn off the net?
ReplyDeleteSpartacat what is happening with the flu in England? I saw one case so far. Any more?
Dix
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteOnly the 2 people in Scotland who had been in Mexico.
Both described as having a 'mild' case and not particularly ill. The rest of the suspected cases that were being 'managed in the community', meaning they're still at home. A few people who were suspected turned out to have a regular flu.
Overall the same as the US- infections are 'milder'.
I'm more concerned about Mexico- i have family over there- and to my eyes its looking not as cut and dried as 'swine flu'... but we're not getting much of an insight on MSM into what other factors those who are badly affected may have in common :-/
Simply put, i just don't know :-(