What next?

[Kathyan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
How much more can the Government interfere in our lives?

[jake-the-peg]

Well they already require the mobile phone operators to track the calls and it's been used in a lot of high profile cases.

Given that we have itemised land line calls I'm rather surprised they don't have the data already.

I'm wetting myself laughing at the idea of keeking details of every e-mail over 90% of it is spam and the volumes are massive - the ISPs will have a hissy fit.

Add that into the fact that anybody who wants to send something secretly and knows what they're about can easilly and cheaply encrypt it in formats that will take even supercomputers years to crack.

Sounds to me like the government knows more about phones than E-mail

[Lonnie]

Since they got in, in 1997, this so-called Labour Goverment has been bent on the 'Nanny State', taking over every inch of our lives, surely there's not that much left to take over.

[Gromit]

A geeky operative at GCHQ is marking Kathyan's file as we speak.

[Kathyan]

I hope he finds it interesting!

[jake-the-peg]

Lonnie

I don't think it was the Labour Government that started tracking people by their mobile phones.

It seems that security actions made by conservative governments fall into the category of "Nothing to hide Nothing to fear"

But anything by a Labour Government is "nanny state"

Is that about it?

[Lonnie]

Eleven years jake, moblies apart, how about cctv cameras, just about the most watched country there is, Traffic (speed) cameras, how many now?.,

Its no good harking back a decade or more, most of its down to this misbegotten goverment.

[jake-the-peg]

Then Lonnie I look forward to seeing the abolition of such monitorring in Cameron's manifesto - along with flying pigs!

The Tory party has always portrayed itself as the "party of law and order" You'd have to be dillusional to think for a moment there would be a rolling back of state surveillance.

[Lonnie]

My main point, is that this Goverment, (Labour), has been in power eleven years now, and regardless of what previous Goverments have done, things have got worse, mainly in their quest for squeezing more and more revenue out of us.

[Kathyan]

I despair of this country, I really do. We have a Government in power who don't listen to the will of the people, all they care about is their massive pay. The alternative, well we don't really have one! I feel as though we are living in a dictatorship.

[Lonnie]

Fair point Steve, but you don't know if that will happen, the only way to find out, is if they get in,
Lets face it, The Labour Goverment under Bliar wasn't anything like the previous ones..

All Politicians tell us what they think we want to hear, its only when they get in, do we find out if they were lying or not.