Dark Templar said:
Not as much as the media claims. The wiretapping thing has been over for a long time.
A snowball starts small but once set rolling gains great momentum.
vampirekid.13 said:
the better question is why does that upset you so much? it pretty much only affects you if you take part in illegal activities on the internet and over the phone. so providing you are a fine upstanding brit this really shouldnt matter to you at all.
... This is exactly why things like this come to pass, because the majority are too institutionalised (I want a better word but this is all that comes to mind for now) to do anything different than acquiesce.
As long as I do nothing wrong, I shouldn't be bothered about ANY of my privacy being breached? Do you realise how absolutely ridiculous that is?
The ball has begun rolling, and as long as they time it right, and have groomed the public to roll over and accept it enough there's absolutely nothing they won't be able to do.
Internet posts being monitored is one thing, I posted in a public domain so that's fine. Private transactions is completely different.