Turning us into a nation full of suspects
Spiked
by Tim Black
07/14//10
‘A man’s home is his castle.’ Rarely has this 400-year-old quipped defence against the arbitrary exercise of state power seemed quite as quaint as it does today. Because whatever else a man’s home is, whatever else he feels his private sphere to be, it is certainly not impermeable. In fact, due to a whole raft of legislation over the past 10 years, our private existence has never been quite so transparent. The state, should it so wish, can read our emails, can check which websites we visit, can watch us take our dogs for walks, can follow us on our way to work … in fact, the possibilities for state surveillance are endless. And the chief reason for this is a spectacularly snide piece of legislation called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9199/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=state+power
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
by Tim Black
07/14//10
‘A man’s home is his castle.’ Rarely has this 400-year-old quipped defence against the arbitrary exercise of state power seemed quite as quaint as it does today. Because whatever else a man’s home is, whatever else he feels his private sphere to be, it is certainly not impermeable. In fact, due to a whole raft of legislation over the past 10 years, our private existence has never been quite so transparent. The state, should it so wish, can read our emails, can check which websites we visit, can watch us take our dogs for walks, can follow us on our way to work … in fact, the possibilities for state surveillance are endless. And the chief reason for this is a spectacularly snide piece of legislation called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9199/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=state+power
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
rudkla - 15. Jul, 08:21
