Comments on: Home Secretary announcement on Communications Data

By: Guardian and Telegraph - one of them is right! | trefor.net

Guardian and Telegraph - one of them is right! | trefor.net — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:16:15 +0000

[...] that has periodically been in the news this year with general opposition and a subject I have posted on in the past. This would indeed have given the ISP industry a [...]

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:56:47 +0000

To make it easier to comment on the consultation document, we’ve republished the document at http://writetoreply.org/communicationsdata/

The republication also gives links for every section, subsection and paragraph in the consultation document, so you can ‘remotely comment’ in detail on the consultation doc from the convenience of your own blog, simply by linking to the appropriate part.

By: Gary Hill

Gary Hill — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:41:21 +0000

Apparently, you’ll need to send Mrs Smith a copy of the internet on a DVD once a month so she can go through it and check for changes.

Seriously, this sort of thing shows just how clueless these people are, it’s laughable if it wasn’t so serious.

By: Michael Blackburn

Michael Blackburn — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:54:44 +0000

The press reports on this are a bit misleading – the government has already passed legislation compelling all ISPs to log and store internet and phone data. This is to comply with EU legislation – Directive 2006/24/EC; the government has no choice but to incorporate the Directive into British law (so much for democracy).

As ever, the EU element in this has been left out of the presentation. The idea to create a central database was dreamt up by the government itself, in its eagerness to increase its surveillance of the whole population. In this case, we have both the EU and our own government eager to destroy any privacy we have.