Criticism for 'UK database' plan

[RichDoblo120]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7410885.stm

According to Gus Hosein, a senior fellow at Privacy International, the latest proposals could be even more controversial.

"The idea that ISPs need to collect data and send it en masse to central government is, without doubt, illegal," he said.

worrying stuff from our ever more paranoid government

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Very scary stuff!

 

[ChrisUK]

Couldn't care less :devil: .

SSH to Secure Proxy FTW!!! Good luck tracking what I do then :slayer: :devil:

 

[Hellcat]

I will set my PC off downloading random crap 24x7 just to screw up their info.. Plus where are they going to store it all? They only just have the bandwidth.... They certainly don't have the storage.

 

[ChrisUK]

I will set my PC off downloading random crap 24x7 just to screw up their info.. Plus where are they going to store it all? They only just have the bandwidth.... They certainly don't have the storage.

:yeahthat:

Anyone in the industry knows this is crap but the press love to wind up the ignorent

 

[swansea2007]

The phone calls are already stored on your telephone providers systems anyway and they can get that info if they need to anyway.

 

[ChrisUK]

The phone calls are already stored on your telephone providers systems anyway and they can get that info if they need to anyway.

Yeah not for very long 2weeks IIRC. Even that takes more storage than you could believe.

 

[swansea2007]

Yeah not for very long 2weeks IIRC. Even that takes more storage than you could believe.

Im on about the numbers you call not the whole convo

 

[ChrisUK]

Im on about the numbers you call not the whole convo

 

[jug]

Anyone in the industry knows this is crap but the press love to wind up the ignorent

:yeahthat:

but its spelt ignorant

 

[GhostWKD]

Yeah not for very long 2weeks IIRC. Even that takes more storage than you could believe.

if talking about numbers i could access someones phone which they've had since 1995 and check what numbers they called anytime or what txts they sent etc... its all stored, storage for basic data like that isnt expensive (although is unreliable, my mirror of vodafone's databases is playing up atm - due to it being updated more than every second etc i need to run off a day old database for everything )

 

[ChrisUK]

:yeahthat:

but its spelt ignorant

Pedantic S.O.A.B :nerner:

 

[ChrisUK]

if talking about numbers i could access someones phone which they've had since 1995 and check what numbers they called anytime or what txts they sent etc... its all stored, storage for basic data like that isnt expensive (although is unreliable, my mirror of vodafone's databases is playing up atm - due to it being updated more than every second etc i need to run off a day old database for everything )

No I was talking about the actuall call

 

[swansea2007]

No I was talking about the actuall call

But they dont record any of our calls. We record some calls at virgin but they are just used for training

 

[ChrisUK]

But they dont record any of our calls. We record some calls at virgin but they are just used for training