[HacktionLab] this is mental

[Alan Dawson]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 08:29:39AM +0100, Mick - Clearerchannel.org wrote:
> This is all over the news and mental.
> 
> I've done the below what else can we do at this point?

I'd feel very negative about this. The mass media was full of the usual
suspects telling us how this is required to defend against paedophiles,
criminals and terrorists. 

The LibDems spin it as a win, as they have put a time limit on it until
2016, and say that data retention and RIPA will have a review then.
This will be after the next election.  

The Tories and the Labour party are both pro data retention and have
been trying to push these things through for years with the
"Interception Modernisation Project" and the "Communication Capabilities
Development Program".  

They are also looking forward to a review, in 2016.  After they have
majority government and can increase the range of the level of
surveillance.

The legislation has a new section, "extra-territoriality" where UK can
issue warrants for data requests to foreign companies, that may involve
non UK citizens not in the UK. ( which I read to mean anybody
anywhere ).

This will enter UK law.

Direct Action is the only solution. More crypto, tor hidden services,
https everywhere, data decetralisation. 

Regards,

Alan Dawson
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