Despite lots of criticism over the plan, UK politicians are moving forward with demands that online service providers store and monitor certain types of internet communications. While the government will be compensating service providers for some of this (your tax dollars at work), it’s still a rather large burden on these service providers, and raises all sorts of privacy questions. Oh, and on top of all of that, we’ve already seen that law enforcement in the UK is struggling to cope with the fact that they’re already inundated with too much data. They don’t want more data, they need better data. Making service providers hang onto even more data doesn’t help the situation, it just opens up the potential for serious privacy invasion.
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