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.