[HacktionLab] this is mental

[Gareth Coleman]

No, it's ok, I've written to the nice Mr Blunkett so I'm sure he will take
his constituency views forward.

It seems mad to me that they still think it's important to pretend its all
nice and legal and governed when we all know that GCHQ is a law unto itself
and will only be limited by funding and technical constraints.

I mean, if they've been happily ignoring the law for years why does it
matter what the laws say? Surely just to reassure middle england?
On 11 Jul 2014 09:16, "Alan Dawson" <aland at burngreave.net> wrote:

> 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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