ISP data retention
dimanche 21 juin 2015 à 14:00A UK government-appointed panel studied the issue of massive surveillance, and recommended making ISPs keep records of all sorts of things internet users do.
The report included one recommendation that the government does not like: ministers would not be allowed to approve use of this data personally. Rather, a special court would have to approve these.
I have not made a link to an article about this recommendation because all the articles I have seen present this court as a tremendous step forward, calling it the "balance" that makes total surveillance acceptable.
I don't think so. The US FISA court has hardly checked surveillance at all, so why expect this one to do any more?
Anyway, government ministers are very unhappy about the prospect of losing this personal power. They want total surveillance and personal control of it.
The UK government responded, through a cronyish newspaper, with a story composed of leaks (!) by anonymous spook officials, claiming that that Russia and China both got copies of Snowden's files and decrypted them.
The article has several claims that are known to be false, and there is no reason to believe a word of it.
Liberty, roughly the UK equivalent of the US's ACLU, says that this is the standard deceptive practice of the surveillance state.