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Originally Posted by oblonsky
The thing that worries me most is that so many people JUST DON'T GET IT!
BT: We're ONLY watching your habits for advertising
COUNCILS: We're ONLY targeting criminals
GOV: We're ONLY stopping terrorism and organised crime
So many people in positions of responsibility see the benefits of snooping for whatever reason but no-one seems to see the down-side.
I suggest a dose of reading up on life in 1980's communist Germany and other Eastern Bloc countries, where the first worry on the mind of many, who were not terrorists or criminals, was what they said on the phone or hotel rooms or even their own home for the worry of being monitored and misconstrued.
Okay, terrorism is very bad, but what about a life free of terrorism where you're always looking over your shoulder?
Or an interenet where you're afraid to type something totally legitimate into a search engine because of a worry that it will be misconstrued? Children researching 20th centuary history google Atomic Bomb to read about the lead up to the bombing of Japan in WWII?
Are law makers today really so blind as to see the long term damage to society that short term gain may bring?
Profiling, monitoring, Phorming, it's just wrong, plain and simple.
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I'm sick to death of complacent morons who come out with "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide." They obviously cannot be bothered (or are incapable) of thinking through the consequences of allowing DPI systems like Phorm into our ISPs.
Blanket surveillance of every citizen (well, technically, we're not citizens, we're "subjects") together with a universal ID and DNA database encompassing everybody on this island is the ernest desire of some elements of the government and security services (one police commissioner is on record saying as much), and when that happens the ancient concept of "innocent until proven guilty" will be well-and-truly dead: instead it will have been replaced by the universal assumption that everyone is a suspect in every crime committed; a data-package to be sifted for matches with crime scene data.
In short: total dehumanization of the entire population.
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Originally Posted by HamsterWheel
BT obviously need some more revenues to invest in upgrading the network - can anyone think how they can monetise their ISPs better ?
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(1) By being honest about what an internet connection actually costs to provide and charging their customers that, instead of subsidising it at the expense of their customers' privacy and security
(2) By not squandering their revenues in the form of obscene pay rises and bonuses for top executives, especially when they oversee disasterous company performance
(3) By ploughing what profit they do make back into the service, instead of giving it to their shareholders in the form of dividends.
It's not rocket science.