How the government plans to track ALL your web use

[Prepper1]

How the government plans to track ALL your web use: MI5 to install 'black box' spy devices to monitor UK internet traffic

MPs' report outlines spooks' take on the draft Communications Data Bill
It shows they are keen to implement nationwide surveillance regime
They want ISPs to install 'black boxes' that can inspect all internet traffic
Spies claim they are only interested in 'communications data'

UK spy agencies want to install 'black box' surveillance devices along the country's communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today.

A report by an influential committee of MPs tells how spooks are keen to implement a nationwide surveillance regime aimed at logging nearly everything Britons do and say online.

The spy network will rely on a technology known as Deep Packet Inspection to log data from communications ranging from online services like Facebook and Twitter, Skype calls with family members to visits to pornographic websites.

The report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, published yesterday, gives UK intelligence agencies' perspective on the government's draft Communications Data Bill, which is intended to update surveillance powers.

The government argues that swift access to communications data is critical to the fight against terrorism and other high-level crime, but it has been delayed after the Liberal Democrats dropped support for the bill.

MI5 chief Jonathan Evans told the committee: 'Access to communications data of one sort or another is very important indeed. It’s part of the backbone of the way in which we would approach investigations.

'I think I would be accurate in saying there are no significant investigations that we undertake across the service that don’t use communications data because of its ability to tell you the who and the when and the where of your target’s activities.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...z2K80qViGX

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Its more like china everyday...

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Sorry, didnt see it had already been posted, silly old git me....

[Scythe13]

In China they have a saying about internet security.

They call it "The Great FIREWALL of China".

[Skean Dhude]

and geeks supported by out governments wrote utilities to help dissidents bypass these firewaalls.

Hypocrites.

[bigpaul]

oh well, at least it'll get me off my backside and away from the computer, tend to do more outside stuff in the better weather anyway just be doing more of it, and sorting out more preps-just wont be talking about it online.