Police and government justify violations of privacy
UK Police are asking the government for new surveillance powers to be able to view the Internet search history of every single person in the country.
Richard Berry, the National Police Chiefs’ Council spokesman told The Guardian that “We want to police by consent, and we want to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place. But we need to balance this with the needs of the vulnerable and the victims. We essentially need the ‘who, where, when and what’ of any communication – who initiated it, where were they and when did it happen. And a little bit of the ‘what’, were they on Facebook, or a banking site, or an illegal child-abuse image-sharing website?”
“Five years ago, [a suspect] could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit,” he added.
It is likely that police are already looking at your online activity, but just want the power to do it legally. As we learned from whistleblower Edward Snowden, governments are very interested what their citizens are doing online, and they do have the technology to spy on every telephone call and Internet communication.
It is unclear who can put limitations on how much government and police organizations will be allowed to know about ordinary individuals going about their business. For now it is unclear just who or what can put limitations in place and make them stick.
Source: activistpost.com
The police will get bored looking at my search history lol.
‘Nuff Said…
Stop it Obama as you have no right to our privacy. You have taken too many of our rights already.
Revolution is looking more & more like our only solution.
I am not a criminal and have done nothing wrong I am not under suspicion so they have NO business in my life!!!!
How are we constantly moving away from the constitution, instead of toward it in this day and age?
Time to get off facebook???
gee steal our lap tops, print a bunch of BS on it, and say we did it,corruption, u fkn bet it is!
Windows 10 has that feature built into it. They will soon be able to access everything on your computer or other device using it.