Thanks to the EU.

How much further can they go?

Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use - Times Online
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The government proposals actually go further than what the EU had in mind, and there's talk that the EU might actually strike these down. If that happens, then the EU goes up in my estimation.
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Originally Posted by Raymond Finch:
Thanks to the EU.

How much further can they go?

Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use - Times Online

they will go as far as they can get away with it, becouse people still think its a war on terror untill they all wake up in the end,and the government is a dictator and we are all slaves but dont worry your ipod and tv will save you :-).
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why does the Post Office let alone the council need to look at my email and which websites I visit? What are these "much wider purposes"? With the PO, I really cannot see any purpose they could want any of my emails/www history. Nor can I see why councils would want to know either.

I suppose that they will come up with some **** and bull excuse along the lines of trying to prevent child abuse, fraud etc and whilst these do definitely need to be stamped out, I suspect that there are police units that can do this somewhat more efficiently than the Post Office.
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The solution to this is in our hands. Attach a footer to all your e-mails and in that footer put some key words - Bin Laden, Semtex, Allah, airliner, and similar are all suitable. Add 'teenyporn' and similar if you feel up to it.

This will hopefully ensure your e-mails DO get snooped, and we can overload the system! :-)
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Originally Posted by C_steam:
The solution to this is in our hands. Attach a footer to all your e-mails and in that footer put some key words - Bin Laden, Semtex, Allah, airliner, and similar are all suitable. Add 'teenyporn' and similar if you feel up to it.

This will hopefully ensure your e-mails DO get snooped, and we can overload the system! :-)

Not long ago on a light aircraft forum frequented by mainly Americans I was advised that using the word 'bomb' could be a bit dicey.

Just for a laugh I then filled my next post with most of the key words C steam has used plus a few others. You wouldn't believe the private messages I received. I was mainly accused of not taking America's war on terror seriously, but one went on to tell me how lucky I was to have such a damn fine Prime Minister who was working hard to secure our freedoms.

No knocks on the door yet!
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Originally Posted by brian pearson:
No knocks on the door yet!

...but I bet there is a file on you though! Probably there is one on every poster on this forum, as we/you could be considered a terrorist, political subversive, mail robber etc etc
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Originally Posted by C_steam:
The solution to this is in our hands. Attach a footer to all your e-mails and in that footer put some key words - Bin Laden, Semtex, Allah, airliner, and similar are all suitable. Add 'teenyporn' and similar if you feel up to it.

This will hopefully ensure your e-mails DO get snooped, and we can overload the system! :-)

Why not just include the whole lot and get a higher credit rating than Bin Laden himself?

PlanetQuo.Net - ECHELON Keywords
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With all the spam I'm getting they're more then welcome


One point how about emails which are confidential within companies ?
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Does that apply to users of Hotmail or Yahoo? Would they go direct to the people running these websites or pressurise the local service providers?
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