UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be brought in

Re:UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be br... by makomk on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:14AM (#8014122)

For those who haven't been following UK politics, there used to be an EU-wide law doing this. That law was created and pushed for by a previous UK government, and the reason they did it as an EU law rather than a UK one was to avoid all the pesky democratic accountability involved in passing UK laws. The ECJ recently squashed the existing law, so they tried to sneak a UK one in by not telling most MPs about the vote and got publicly rumbled by Tom Watson MP last night.

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Re:UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be br... by pling on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:18AM (#8014137)

That's a perfectly good review of the situation.

You know when they try and sneak something in that the system is broken. The question we have to ask:

Do these people really represent our best interests at this point in time?

If the answer is no, something needs to be done, but over 100 years of population pacification (since the world wars) and the recent 30 years of entertainment-driven culture has sucked the energy away from any dissidents.

It's all working nicely for everyone, until one day it doesn't.

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Re:UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be br... by insky on Thursday July 10, 2014 @05:12AM (#8014304)

The energy is still there, it's just misdirected.

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Re:UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be br... by PM_Tech on Thursday July 10, 2014 @04:53AM (#8014249)

Thank you for that insight. I couldn't upvote it enough.

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