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What practical steps can we take if this becomes law? If police and local councils are given access to browsing records, abuse is inevitable. There are already

by J-dawg 11y ago

What practical steps can we take if this becomes law? If police and local councils are given access to browsing records, abuse is inevitable. There are already well-documented examples of councils using terrorism legislation to spy on people 1)suspected of using the wrong type of rubbish bin [1] 2)sending their children to school outside of their catchment area. [2] This type of abuse and overreach will happen frequently. Not to mention crooked police/council officials selling data, and others pursuing personal vendettas & checking up on current and former romantic partners. The UK will become a horrible, paranoid place. What can I do to protect myself? Use a VPN for all internet access? Use Tor (which seems too slow for most practical purposes)? What else can we do? [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-to-spy-on-bin-crimes.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc... [2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7922427/Councils-warned-over-unlawful-spying-using-anti-terror-legislation.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7922427... EDIT: added links to sources

infinity0 11y ago
These days, Tor is not slow for practical purposes (except maybe for low-latency things like online gaming). Use it, it pisses GCHQ off quite a lot. :)
- JupiterMoon 11y ago
  Best to use it for normal browsing (reading the papers etc) and go back to buying dvds (with cash) for one's ahem interesting videos.
- vixen99 11y ago
  I don't think you actually know that it 'pisses GCHQ off quite a lot'. Public news about this can be misleading on purpose. Perhaps the cunning plan is to frighten those with something to hide into using Tor for which (who knows?) they have developed tracking techniques via a variety of approaches. If true, they'd be crazy to make that public. Herd your mice along the Tor route by discouraging use of the non encrypted internet. All irrelevant really since anyone can arrange to communicate via an innocuous looking one-time pad whatever the weather irrespective of any possible moves that a government can make short of shutting everything down!
- dave2000 11y ago
  I'm using tor to post this on an android phone. There's no noticeable speed decrease. Get on it.

by J-dawg 11y ago

infinity0 11y ago

These days, Tor is not slow for practical purposes (except maybe for low-latency things like online gaming). Use it, it pisses GCHQ off quite a lot. :)

JupiterMoon 11y ago
Best to use it for normal browsing (reading the papers etc) and go back to buying dvds (with cash) for one's ahem interesting videos.
vixen99 11y ago
I don't think you actually know that it 'pisses GCHQ off quite a lot'. Public news about this can be misleading on purpose. Perhaps the cunning plan is to frighten those with something to hide into using Tor for which (who knows?) they have developed tracking techniques via a variety of approaches. If true, they'd be crazy to make that public. Herd your mice along the Tor route by discouraging use of the non encrypted internet. All irrelevant really since anyone can arrange to communicate via an innocuous looking one-time pad whatever the weather irrespective of any possible moves that a government can make short of shutting everything down!
dave2000 11y ago
I'm using tor to post this on an android phone. There's no noticeable speed decrease. Get on it.