What are your views on this? I personally think this its ridiculous! I really couldn't care less but its a complete useless waste of tax payers money, people who are against this will use spam bots, or just send a ridiculous amount of random emails to get there servers filled up in the blink of an eye and then it will cost them even more money for new servers to store the email data, and in the end it will result in complete failure, it's just a waste of time. I mean people can still talk on MSN/AIM/YAHOO things like that and won't be tracked, so terrorists/criminals will just send emails like "Get on MSN Jimmy" if they want to talk. See how it makes no sense? "From March all internet service providers (ISPs) will by law have to keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for a year." "Some three billion e-mails are thought to be sent each day in the UK." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7819230.stm
Getting to be more and more inline with what was predicted in Orwell's 1984 though it is a few decades late. This is crazy, the amount of data to be stored is one thing, the invasion of privacy of an individual is another. UK govt seemed to be more and more phobic on anything and everything.
Ah yes Orwell's views are coming to light. Its a huge invasion of privacy, they try to track everything we do!
I'm not surprised. The country is a mess under the correct government. There was also an incident where a wikipedia article was blocked by major ISP's [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer_controversy]
I think it's inevitably in the nature of the work of the security services that all their successes are hidden while their occasional failures are broadcast wide. Who knows how many terrorist plots we've already been protected from because they might have developed automated software that flags certain groups of words in email and telecoms communications? I think it's easy to present the image that a person will actually be inspecting every email ever sent, but this idea doesn't even begin to stand up to examination, if you think about it.
Might as well ask them to filter all the spams for you before the emails reach you. Since they are tracking every email, it doesn't take very much to do so more processing on the emails to check if they are spam or not. Who knows, maybe UK will be the country with the least spam received per citizen.
Keeping a track of so many emails would be very difficult and will cost a lot of money that can be spend on better things.
As i said i don't really care about the fact there doing it, its just the money there using that they get from are taxes, could surley be put to better use! and to peter anderson, that was a very intresting article! thanks.
i think its slightly different... in Germany the government sends infected emails and thats how they track you. that is what they intended to do i don't know if they actually passed that law.. p.s like terrorists use emails...
IMHO it is not really a matter of something to hide or nothing to hide, it is basic personal privacy in which the State has no rights to. There should be certain safeguards for individual rights.