British spy agency collects and stores internet histories, emails, Facebook posts, and phonecalls, - Polidicks

[quote] Britain's spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world's phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA). The sheer scale of the agency's ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate. One key innovation has been GCHQ's ability to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days so that it can be sifted and analysed. That operation, codenamed Tempora, has been running for some 18 months. GCHQ and the NSA are consequently able to access and process vast quantities of communications between entirely innocent people, as well as targeted suspects. [/quote] [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa[/url] Everyone is now guilty until proven innocent and privacy no longer, in any meaningful way, exists.

[QUOTE=Aidan_088;41132211]privacy no longer, in any meaningful way, exists.[/QUOTE] oh please

[QUOTE=NixNax123;41132252]oh please[/QUOTE] Its almost as if people need to start treating social media as not a private platform or something.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;41132303]Its almost as if people need to start treating social media as not a private platform or something.[/QUOTE] It's not just social media it's also phone calls and internet search histories.

Let's hope UK citizens actually protest this.

lol western intelligence communities are giving eachother handjobs.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;41132303]Its almost as if people need to start treating social media as not a private platform or something.[/QUOTE] I think you realise it's not just about social media Our lives are digitalized to such a degree that it's not really possible to choose not to use the Internet anymore. How do you manage your finances, for example?

[QUOTE=demoguy08;41132418]I think you realise it's not just about social media Our lives are digitalized to such a degree that it's not really possible to choose not to use the Internet anymore. How do you manage your finances, for example?[/QUOTE] I get that. But it helps if people understood the platforms they used better.

So TEMPORA is essentially the British version of PRISM, but bigger, as Snowden says. Also why is this getting rated winner?

[QUOTE=Disotrtion;41132513] Also why is this getting rated winner?[/QUOTE] I assume it's for Snowden.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;41132429]I get that. But it helps if people understood the platforms they used better.[/QUOTE] but you cant really place the blame on people when governments have no right to monitor them like this in the first place

All in a days work [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4r0p3LqpI1qgu2gyo1_500.gif[/IMG]

My main concern is only what exactly are they going to be using this information for? Honestly, I expect to be locked in a prison cell for the rest of my life for what I use the internet for and although I don't consider anyone to care about pirating, I can imagine that whoever has copyright protection could likely fuck my life beyond recognition if they somehow got hold of this information. I'll just be happy for now that it's just a few hundred spies holding the information.

[QUOTE=Chopstick;41133322]My main concern is only what exactly are they going to be using this information for? Honestly,[B] I expect to be locked in a prison cell for the rest of my life for what I use the internet for[/B] and although I don't consider anyone to care about pirating, I can imagine that whoever has copyright protection could likely fuck my life beyond recognition if they somehow got hold of this information. I'll just be happy for now that it's just a few hundred spies holding the information.[/QUOTE] what the fuck do you use the internet for

[QUOTE=Winner;41133566]Terrorism, child porn, detailing your most recent murders, plotting to assassinate the president, etc. The usual things[/QUOTE] I recommend you read a book call 1984.

I'm reminded heavily of Daedalus from the first Deus Ex. This has to dubiously legal at best, no? At least, I'd hope so. This might even the first thing to make me write to my MP (who's also a minister, albeit the science and universities one) asking what's actually happening, and has Parliament had a say in it?

[QUOTE=Iago;41132382]Let's hope UK citizens actually protest this.[/QUOTE] Meh, can't be bothered. Call me when something important happens.

so hague basically lied when he said what we didn't use the NSA info and didn't break international law - can't say I'm surprised

[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41135613]so hague basically lied when he said what we didn't use the NSA info and didn't break international law - can't say I'm surprised[/QUOTE] no shit. would you publicly announce to the world that you had broken international law? That's what everyone in politics does anyway, deny anything negative and support anything positive because that's obviously how the world works

[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41135613]so hague basically lied when he said what we didn't use the NSA info and didn't break international law - can't say I'm surprised[/QUOTE] hey guys we broke international law. that would go down really well!

[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41135613]so hague basically lied when he said what we didn't use the NSA info and didn't break international law - can't say I'm surprised[/QUOTE] Which law?

[QUOTE=Fangz;41133601]I recommend you read a book call 1984.[/QUOTE] Well since we're telling people to read works of fiction everyone's already read like they're prophecy, I recommend The Boy who Cried Wold. You'll love it- it's got a wolf in it.

And this was announced to the surprise of no one. Honestly I was expecting to hear this sooner.