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Yay to the EU Safe Harbour. Oh no wait a minute. This is why we host all our stuff ourselves in a UK DC. Snooping legislation is crazy in the land of the free

by meaty 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago
Hasn't UK just passed an outrageous snooping bill recently?
- meaty 14y ago
  Yes but we're still protected by DPA and European data protection law.
  - mtgx 14y ago
    What does that mean exactly? Why would they pass it if that were true?
    - meaty 14y ago
      It means that if it happens or is required then due process is followed and information is available to us. However those who do nefarious things certainly don't do email.
gregsq 14y ago
The writing on the wall was visible to the Australian government as well, which chanced free trade agreements to keep things local.
- indiecore 14y ago
  How is Australia these days?
datalus 14y ago
The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
spindritf 14y ago
In UK you can go to jail for not remembering your password. There's nothing to "yay". > A 19-year old from Lancashire has been sentenced to 16 weeks in a young offenders institution for refusing to give police the password to an encrypted file on his computer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
- pixelbath 14y ago
  "Forgetting" the password to files comprising the entirety of evidence pertaining to the investigation of a crime is hardly the same as being jailed for forgetting an arbitrary password.
  - CapitalistCartr 14y ago
    It looks the same to me. If the "files comprising the entirety of evidence" are what's encrypted, then there is no case unless and until they decrypt them. What's to stop them from jailing anyone they want who can't/won't decrypt everything on their computer at demand? This is exactly how police states operate. A police state doesn't require evil intent. On the contrary, each one starts out with the BEST of intentions.

Yay to the EU Safe Harbour. Oh no wait a minute. This is why we host all our stuff ourselves in a UK DC. Snooping legislation is crazy in the land of the free

by meaty 14y ago

Yay to the EU Safe Harbour. Oh no wait a minute. This is why we host all our stuff ourselves in a UK DC. Snooping legislation is crazy in the land of the free

mtgx 14y ago

Hasn't UK just passed an outrageous snooping bill recently?

meaty 14y ago
Yes but we're still protected by DPA and European data protection law.
- mtgx 14y ago
  What does that mean exactly? Why would they pass it if that were true?
  - meaty 14y ago
    It means that if it happens or is required then due process is followed and information is available to us. However those who do nefarious things certainly don't do email.

gregsq 14y ago

The writing on the wall was visible to the Australian government as well, which chanced free trade agreements to keep things local.

indiecore 14y ago
How is Australia these days?

datalus 14y ago

The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

spindritf 14y ago

In UK you can go to jail for not remembering your password. There's nothing to "yay". > A 19-year old from Lancashire has been sentenced to 16 weeks in a young offenders institution for refusing to give police the password to an encrypted file on his computer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/

pixelbath 14y ago
"Forgetting" the password to files comprising the entirety of evidence pertaining to the investigation of a crime is hardly the same as being jailed for forgetting an arbitrary password.
- CapitalistCartr 14y ago
  It looks the same to me. If the "files comprising the entirety of evidence" are what's encrypted, then there is no case unless and until they decrypt them. What's to stop them from jailing anyone they want who can't/won't decrypt everything on their computer at demand? This is exactly how police states operate. A police state doesn't require evil intent. On the contrary, each one starts out with the BEST of intentions.