Britain may be taking another step towards the world described in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. We are the most watched nation in the world, and yet that still isn't enough for the ruling elite. They now wish to monitor what you get up to online.
The telegraph reported that the government want to exert more control over the public by storing the details of the British people's communications including every phone call, text message and email. It has been reported that the government will order phone companies and broadband providers to record the details of communications by their users.
The governments new spy plans will target Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
This plan to spy on the public has so many flaws, and is a direct danger to our civil liberties. The information that this scheme will gather will be of a very big interest to hackers, and since British governments have a very poor record of keeping confidential information secure, the risk here, is that the information could fall into the wrong hands. Also, information of what websites you visit could quite possibly to exploited for commercial gain.
Under the totalitarian scheme to track and watch the public, the security services will have unlimited access and “real time” access to phone and internet records of anyone they wish to put under surveillance. In short, the surveillance will track “who, when and where” of each message, allowing extremely close surveillance.
What possible reasons do they have to watch over us so closely? Well the usual lies of “combating terrorism” is spilled out again and again. However, in my opinion, this is just another law hidden under the veil of terrorism; but this will not combat terrorism, or any other crime for that matter. Any criminal who wants to use the internet without being spied on, can and already are doing so. So if that’s their reasoning behind this, then its completely obsolete. Yet, with that in mind, anyopne who opposes this are hit with criticism as ridicules as- “you must support terrorism” or “you are pro-paedophile”. I am sorry, but if you think that this will have a significant effect on crime prevention, then you are behind the times.
The government are acting like that of a communist state, reminiscent of Soviet Russia. The Big Brother state is creeping ever close, and we have to stop the destruction of our Civil Liberties.
“THOSE WHO SACRIFICE LIBERTY FOR SECRUITY DESERVE NEITHER”
