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Old 05-20-2008, 01:40 PM ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.
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Old 05-21-2008, 04:23 PM Re: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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Crime and terrorism? It's always only been terrorism. Remember all those quotes about "We aren't listening to you talk to your grandmother in France unless you're a terrorist"?
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Old 05-21-2008, 05:06 PM Re: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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I feel like George Orwell just walked over my grave.
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Old 05-21-2008, 05:58 PM Re: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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You know it starts out crime and terrorism and leads to those who don't agree with whoever is in charge.
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Old 05-21-2008, 07:10 PM Re: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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That's the thing. Nobody who doesn't owe the Saudi Royal Family huge favors, is going to argue against protecting innocent people from terrorists. And it's exceptionally rare to find anyone who would say child molesters should be anywhere but in a cage. And crack dealers. And actors in bad movies.

The only real argument against most of these classes of people being spied on, is two fold. First, to spy on the bad people, you have to spy on the good people, and narrow your list down. Second, it's going to reach the point where good people can't protect their privacy from idiots on the internet by, say, encrypting their email before sending it.
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Old 05-27-2008, 04:15 AM Re: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails
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The last time this was put forward a few years ago, with less users on-line. AOL pointed out to the "experts" that their data alone from their proxy logs and mail server logs would require around 3/4 of a terabyte of storage per day. And that was without storing the mail message content.
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