Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35872110)

I think this will have a number of consequences:

Many people will seriously restrict their use of cloud resources. I would never put any critical data in a cloud space.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35872223)

Has something changed as far as cloud storage is concerned? I assumed that had the same level of privacy as it always has done, i.e not that much.

I use Dropbox but encrypt the documents myself.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35872232)

There are many people out there who trust cloud storage for all their personal stuff. You and I know that's not secure but Joe Public is notoriously ignorant of these things. If the bill and the resulting bruhaha highlights the lack of security is that not a bad thing?

Originally Posted by techguyone (Post 35872093)

I thought this might make a change from brexit, migrants, trump, thatcher etc etc.

It looks like it's finally happened, Labour tried it, the coalition sorta tried it, and now the Conservatives have finally managed it.

Investigatory Powers Act

Shortly we'll be about to have the most invasive Internet surveillance in the world launched upon us. Not to mention the security risk posed by ISP storing all that data, remember the Talk Talk data breach?
The Ashley Madison data breach?
How happy are you to have the ISP's store your data for 12 months so that the following people can access it - all without a warrant.



Quite big isn't it.

Yes I know, 'nothing to hide nothing to fear' yada yada

Not so funny though when some hacktivist hacks your ISP and there's all that yummy data just sat there.

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There are thnigs people can do if they feel that perhaps a smidgen of privacy might be rather nice.

This article is quite useful.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol....nment-snoopers

and this showing the torrentfreak vpn review 2016

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-anonymous-review-160220/

It would be nice to know other members feelings on this, and perhaps any VPNs etc they may recommend.

Remember - whilst the ISP's only keep your data for 12 months, Government agencies who scrape that data can potentially keep it forever.

In that case, whilst perhaps this government may well be ok in that regard, what about the next one, or the one after?
We all saw what happened when Councils got access to people via the RIPA act, the potential for misuse is massive.
Food for thought.

Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 35872253)

They are basically storing a list of domains you have visited, not the pages, or content.

As to who will access the data - for members of CF I would guess at no one, unless we happen to have some terrorist members we dont know about. These services are extremely busy, and have to justify to senior officers (or equivelent) why they should access this data, they are not going to waste their time doing this unless its actually important. I also think its pointless, since its not really telling them much, plus organised criminal or terror groups will simply bypass such things with VPNs etc.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35872389)

I don't think it's good to dismiss privacy with a throw away nothing to hide nothing to fear line

It's like saying free speech isn't important because I have nothing to say imo

Originally Posted by techguyone (Post 35872401)

I agree totally, my reference was because that's the standard line they trot out with to justify such things.