cc Your Email to Jacqui Day

***Please invite your friends if you have joined and spread the word!***

Jacqui Smith wants to extend the governments' access to our personal data. She also thinks it's acceptable as long as the government isn't storing this data all in one place, so she wants the ISP's to do the Stasi's dirty work for them. She said the Government had rejected the idea of a centralised database because it would impinge on privacy. 

She favoured a "middle way" in which companies, such as BT or Virgin, and leading internet service providers would have the job of collating phone, email and web use.

ISP's currently have to hold a certain amount of our data for billing purposes, queries etc.. (one years worth). She wants them to spy on social sites like Facebook, Bebo and ALL IP Phone Calls, so virtually nothing we do, is private if the government decide they want a look! 

They already save all our emails, texts and Phorm are after your browsing history, so they can give you a personalised hard sell whenever you logon to the internet. They also want to sell these lists to the highest bidders.

The ISP's will receive 2billion in extra funding but it will also mean the price of phone calls will rise, so you can pay for the government to spy on you!  

NICE PISS TAKE! 

This is, the delayed and modified Home Office "consultation" on Communications Data snooping and retention. it is called laughingly : Protecting the Public in a Changing Communications Environment.

Pages 26 - 27

"III. A middle way (The Waffle)

The Government is therefore consulting on a range of "middle way" options that seek to balance the rights to privacy and security. These options are all based on the model for collecting and retaining data that exists today: the communications service provider would collect the data and store it and allow access by the authorities on a case-by-case basis under RIPA. All the data would therefore continue to be distributed around and held by different communications providers.

As a first step, the Government would legislate to ensure that all the data that public authorities might need, including the third party data (from overseas communications), is collected and kept in the UK. Communications service providers based in the UK would therefore continue to collect and retain communications data relating to their own  services but also collect and store the additional third party data crossing their networks. This would therefore include communications data which does not come under the scope of the EU Data Retention Directive.

All the data retained by the communications service providers would continue to be accessible on a case-by-case basis to public authorities, subject to the same rigorous safeguards that are now in place"

This is the same "rigorous safeguards" that allow the smoking, fat, dustbin, dog shit police to hassle us using "counter terrorism" laws.

Remember that, unlike most other civilised countries, the UK Government does NOT have to put their evidence in front of a judge before poking their noses into our business.

Read more about Jacqui and how she wants to take away our liberty here

So, for one day, we should send a message to the Home Office - "you want to see our emails? Ok then, here they are then!". We do this by simply cc'ing or bcc'ing every email we send (and if you like, forwarding every email you receive), regardless of importance or content, to public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.

The date has been set for June 15th. However for legal reasons, please don't go ahead with the protest of your own accord. Register at http://www.ccjacquismith.co.uk/ to keep up with the latest news of the protest.

Resistence is not futile

Sign the Petition at Number 10 too http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

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