Parliament to unleash barrage of criticism on Snoopers' Charter The joint parliamentary committee scrutinising the government’s Communications Data Bill - universally dubbed the “Snoopers' Charter” - is set to slate the draft law in its official report published tomorrow. Most of the committee members felt the Home Office had failed to make a convincing case for the scale of requested …
This dumb c*w who is supposed to be the Home Secretary has more lives than a litter of cats.
If the intelligence guy saw fit to shoot off in a public forum, the failure to produce him to Parliament is simply May and Cameron giving the V-sign to the nation.
The chances are it will be yet another screw-up in a long series of governmental screw-ups. These systems will only catch idiots, professional terrorists use leading edge technology, And they think a fail rate of 16.7% is acceptable.
The Americans have already invested in technology so the UK should set up a sharing arrangement. If the US have problems with this concept, the UK should simply tell them to take all their satellite junk out of Menwith Hill, Yorkshire. That would get the UK respect.
The Americans call this playing hardball. It's what they do all the time.
Meanwhile, there is Silent Circle, TOR and PGP.
"Home Secretary Theresa May said the proposed surveillance law would "save lives" and help cops catch more paedophiles and terrorists."
The exact same argument was used for the C-11 bill here in Canada. You know what happened? In 30 days since it went live, these rules allowed the police to arrest 50 people for Copyright infringement. They got no terrorists or weirdos at all. Another 1 million Canadians will be fined, notified and/or arrested in the next 6 months according to the government.
You guys should fight against this with all your heart. Don't let the government crush your freedom and liberties under their steel toe boot like happened here.
Because (as we all know) "Copyright infringement," (not theft as the industry likes to describe it) is a gateway crime.
First you're downloading tracks and not paying for them.
Next your parking up trucks of fertilizer and fuel oil by the parliament building.
Yeah, right.
One of my uncles owned a dairy farm. But you don't need to grow up on a farm to recognize BS when you smell it.
I suppose Farr is a classic example of the Peter Principle ("employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence"). To be honest, if the way the bill has been handled is how it will be implemented in the future, then I doubt we should worry that much, except about the ever spiralling cost.
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