Quote:
Lord West, who is a former First Sealord and Chief of the Naval Staff, also issued a general warning about the lack of privacy in using the internet.
He said internet service providers could already assess ""information about the consumer's internet use for the provision of value-added services"".
""People must realize - and I used to say this within the Navy - there will be more people look at your internet information than look at a postcard when you write it,"" he told the House of Lords. ""People tend to forget that - and
[that] it is used for quite legal purposes, some of it.""
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I keep seeing this quoted in various stories and it's beginning to annoy me. Is this the standard by which policy is being made by senior figures in government and elsewhere? Looking at a postcard only requires opportunity and the ability to read. Viewing my net activity requires deliberate interception by skilled people using expensive network kit. If my net activity is being routinely intercepted and "looked at" who exactly is doing it and under what authority?
Why am I reminded of "Senator tubes" over in the US when I read this sort of comment from a senior figure?