Is This What The 'Snoopers Charter' Will Be Used For Eventually? - TruePublica
By Graham Vanbergen
– One should wonder where the universal surveillance system dubbed the
‘snoopers charter’ installed by Britain’s government is heading for
eventually. Recently described by Edward Snowden in tweets as the “most intrusive and least accountable surveillance regime in the West” and its “a comprehensive record of your private activities, the activity log of your life,” – it should really make you ask that question.
We now have a good idea of what surveillance the British government
is going to be conducting over its citizens from now on. But think for a
minute. The last twelve months of online activity will be captured –
what does this say about you? What does it look like? Does it reveal
your political interests, subscriptions, social networks and how they
relate to you, religious or medical concerns, even your most private
sexual interests. And fantasies; fantasies that many people have that
are never enacted, such as doing something evil or illegal – but
searching the internet out of nothing more than inquisitiveness. How
confusing would that be to the state or to one of the many tens of
thousands of individuals in government departments not professionally
trained to interpret all this data. Generally speaking what this
surveillance system does is to map out who you really are like no other.
Before we consider where this system is potentially going, it should
be understood what the government is capable of when it comes to
creating an act and then abusing it. Let’s take the the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
