The UK Government have set out plans to monitor Internet traffic and keep a record of what we’ve all been up to for twelve months.
A draft version of the Communications Bill will be published shortly and is expected to show that the Government wish to record the use of social network sites, webmail, voice calls over the Internet and… gaming.
Bernard Hogan-Howem, the Metropolitan Police commissioner said ‘Put simply, the police need access to this information to keep up with the criminals who bring so much harm to victims and our society.’
Officers would not need a warrant to access the originator, recipient and location of the communication but would need to apply to the courts to access the contents of a message.
Source: BBC
teflon
Yes. I’m all for this.
Oh wait, I read it wrong.
An-dz
It seems like there is nowhere you can go in the English speaking world to be free of this kind of thing :(
YOURMUMANDME
I….uh…, I mean someone that I know wants to watch women undress through peepholes in the local sports centre but it’s all a matter of privacy isn’t it?
She can do one!
Jim Hargreaves
I honestly can’t fathom what government officials can conote from gamer’s playing habits. Even if it turns out that our younger generations are pumping 100 hours a week into World of Warcraft/Call of Duty there’s little they can do about it.
Tarbun84
This is utter rubbish. Privacy is a luxury nowadays
An-dz
The solution is to create our own political gaming party, then teflon can make wearing toeshoes outside a legal obligation.
Omac_brother
Can somebody please tell me why they need to know when I played online?
This makes no sense at all.
teflon
They believe that terrorist groups, and presumably other criminals too, use games consoles and their voice chat facilities in order to organise themselves. I can understand that it could be useful for them to link suspected terrorist networks together, but being able to access everything bar the details of the conversations themselves without a warrant is still a serious invasion of everyone’s privacy.
Forrest_01
Kinda like walking into a changing room & ordering everyone to remove their towels, as they are sure that terrorists are operating in the area armed with cock bombs.
Tuffcub
That is a genius idea! *slips on his police officer uniform and heads towards the swimming pool*
Forrest_01
I don’t know why i am shocked you have a police officer uniform! :D
Tuffcub
It’s an American one from my clubbing days. Literally, there’s a pic of me with a in it weilding a baseball bat :)
Forrest_01
The baseball bat from your clubbing days eh? XD
Missed opportunity to be stood there with your truncheon out though! :P
TSBonyman
Any excuse to tighten the screws. NWO here we come..
Crocadillian
Of course they need to know what were doing. Of course it’s for all the victims in society and NOT because they need to reign in the vast benefits that it has for us and the many drawbacks it has for people currently in positions of power.
Of course not…
*searches online for encryption software*
BrendanCalls
Yet another of our liberties breached because people are so pathetically shit scared of crime that is so rare its almost un-trackable anyway.
Some of the worst atrocities were born from good intentions……someone should tell this to politicians