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Online tracking isn’t snoopers’ charter...it is crooks’ nightmare
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by liamssoft | June 14, 2012 at 02:23 am
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It has been a very busy week for the Home Secretary with four important announcements. 1) Forced marriages to be made illegal, 2) new immigration proposals, setting minimum earnings of nearly £20000 to bring a relative to the UK, 3) bill to tackle defamation online and 4) the snoopers charter.....
By THERESA MAY, Home Secretary
Today Theresa May will unveil plans to let cops track emails and social networking sites to catch paedophiles, serious criminals and terrorists.
Mrs May explains why her blueprint will protect thousands of innocent victims.
WE have been sickened by the recent case in Rochdale of a network of men grooming young girls — plying them with drink, drugs and gifts so they could use them for sex.
And it could have been even worse if some of these criminals had escaped justice.
Key to the police cracking this case was communications data. Information from their mobiles proved they were in constant contact, making calls and sending texts to co-ordinate their crimes.
Data showing where they were when they made calls or sent texts helped prove the victims’ stories. The data helped lead to the men being caught, convicted and sentenced — to between four and 19 years in jail. Who knows how many of these vile criminals might have gone free without this crucial policing tool.
But fast-forward five or ten years and this gang wouldn’t have been communicating just through calls and texts — they would have been using social networks, instant messaging, online gaming and emails.
Just because criminals only talk to each other online shouldn’t mean they escape justice. But that is what will happen if we don’t update police powers. Paedophiles are avoiding capture because the police cannot get access to all the data they need. If we do nothing the situation will only get worse. That is why the Government has today published a draft Bill to allow the law to keep up with changes in technology......MORE
Source: thesun.co.uk
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Police line up with May as Government launches plans for further police powers to spy on websites, e-mails and texts
"Bernard Hogan-Howe warns that police will lose the fight against crime unless Parliament passes a controversial new law enabling officers to collect more communications data. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner runs the risk that critics will accuse him of meddling in politics. But Mr Hogan-Howe is passionate about the issue and believes that greater powers to access data are essential to waging a “total war on crime”." - The Times (£)
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Nick Pickles: Under the cover of David Cameron's Leveson evidence today, the Government slips out its plans to log every website visit you make.
Nick Pickles is Director of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch. Follow Nick on Twitter.
Today the Home Office will finally announce its plans to monitor the internet use of every British citizen.
Let’s be clear. Right now – without any new powers – the police and security services can read your emails, tap your phone, plant hidden cameras and microphones in your house and intercept your internet use. All of which can be done without any approval of a judge.
Aside from the blatant spin of announcing unprecedented spying powers during the Prime Minister’s testimony to the Leveson enquiry, the Home Office is trying to hide an unprecedented level of surveillance of the entire population behind a miniscule concession of removing the ability to access Communications Data from local councils.
o start with, logging every email/ website visit/ social media message is unprecedented in Western society. No other democracy does this. (And that is if it even works - the Oxford Internet Institute, LSE and Cambridge Computer Lab have all seriously questioned whether it can.)
We don’t know if there will be a system to exempt some people from the surveillance. For example, MPs, foreign diplomats, indeed security services staff will all have perfectly legitimate concerns about private companies holding huge databases about their communications.
This policy goes against the Coalition Agreement, against Conservative pre-election policy and is fundamentally an illiberal, intrusive boondoggle that will do little to improve national security and do everything to turn us into a nation of suspects.
Before the election, the Prime Minister said that “If we want to stop the state controlling us, we must confront this surveillance state.”
He was absolutely right.
Source: conservativehome.blogs.com
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Snooping: Petition
Dear David Cameron,
Respect our privacy. Stop the internet and phone snooping plan.
- Don't spy on our e-mail, phone and internet use
- Keep your election promise to "reverse the rise of the surveillance state"
- This is Britain, not China or Iran. We don't want the government spying on our every move
Source:secure.38degrees.org.uk
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Tuesday 12 June
Internet trolls targeted in new bill to tackle defamation online
Major reforms of the libel laws will see a duty placed on internet service providers to try to identify internet trolls without victims needing to resort to costly legal action.
Websites will also be given greater protection from being sued if they help to identify those posting defamatory messages, under government plans. MORE
Source: guardian.co.uk
Monday 11 June 2012
New immigration proposals, setting minimum earnings of nearly £20000 to bring a relative to the UK
New immigration proposals, setting minimum earnings of nearly £20,000 for those wanting to bring a relative to the UK, would prevent up to 30,000 parents and children from joining their families here.... MORE
Source: channel4.com
Friday 8th June 2012
Forced marriage to be made illegal in England and Wales
Prime Minster David Cameron has said that he wants forced marriage to be made illegal.
He wants any parents who make their children get married to be prosecuted and in some cases even face prison.
In Scotland forced marriage is already against the law, the new rules will make it illegal in the rest of the UK.
Last year 1,468 forced marriages were reported but experts worry the real number could be five times higher..... MORE
Source: bbc.co.uk
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exPat (not verified)at 05:08 on June 14th, 2012
The UK is screwed. The liberal anti-culture of social victim & self-loathing brought about the moral and legal decay. Brits caved at every poke and prod by new immigrants to the point of allowing the completely alien, anti- equality Shariah into the system. The push back at this late date is unfortunately more an attack on individual freedoms. Nation by nation the EU is learning the most basic lesson that you can not be all things to all people. The entire EU liberal politic is going to have to find a different path to winning elections. Best of luck. It's going to be painful. More so due to all the economic austerity required to climb out of the social red ink.