3 ms·
Presumably this is the tip of the iceberg and most western states are essentially wire tapping their citizens use of the internet? Why is the UK govt. trying t
by ed_blackburn 13y ago
Presumably this is the tip of the iceberg and most western states are essentially wire tapping their citizens use of the internet?
Why is the UK govt. trying to create an the snoopers charter when they already have it? Unless they know that their current method is morally dubious and arguably illegal?
- mtgx 13y agoThey've been trying to legalize it as much as possible, so they can use all that data in Court. The same has been happening in US, too. That's why FBI wanted to legalize these backdoors. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-seeks-internet-backdoors http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-seeks-internet-...
- DanBC 13y agoThe government want GCHQ to be able to do this directly rather than use NSA. The government want this information to be usable in court, although we don't have the US concept of "fruit of the poison tree". (We allow evidence got from illegal wire taps; the US doesn't.)