Snooping fully authorised

I’ve posted a few articles about privacy & the lack thereof on the internet. You may have already seen CNET carrying the news India has settled it’s fight with RIM over blackberry access. The whole situation seems well summed up by this paragraph:

Details of the agreement were not revealed. But India has been after RIM as well as Google and Skype to set up local servers in the country where the government and law enforcement agencies could more easily monitor network data in the name of national security.

So there you have it, they are snooping on every search you do, every video you watch and every blackberry call you make. I particularly dislike the tissue thin lie that it makes us all safer. Read CNET the story here

I’ve written about the relationship of freedom with privacy in:
Is Nothing Private Anymore.

I wrote concerns about the proposed Australian internet filter in:
Filter Ahoy.

I’ve written about disturbing developments in tracking on the internet in:
Slippery Slopes.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 2 Nov 2010 | 0 comments
Tagged with News, News, None

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