UK: Surveillance devices to monitor Web traffic
LONDON (AP) — British intelligence agencies are planning to install an unspecified number of spy devices along Britain's telecommunications network so they can monitor Britons' interactions with overseas services such as Facebook and Twitter, according to lawmakers.
The devices are intended as a lynchpin of a nationwide surveillance plan intended to log nearly everything Britons do online — from Skype calls to instant messages to visits to pornographic websites.
Some new details have been unveiled in a parliamentary report published Tuesday.
The report says the devices would rely on "Deep Packet Inspection," so-called because it allows those intercepting the data to comb through its content.
Authorities say the government aims to gather information about the data's sender, its recipients, and time and location information associated with both.
The devices are intended as a lynchpin of a nationwide surveillance plan intended to log nearly everything Britons do online — from Skype calls to instant messages to visits to pornographic websites.
Some new details have been unveiled in a parliamentary report published Tuesday.
The report says the devices would rely on "Deep Packet Inspection," so-called because it allows those intercepting the data to comb through its content.
Authorities say the government aims to gather information about the data's sender, its recipients, and time and location information associated with both.
Amazing that the British people are willing to put up with this. A clear violation of privacy and the right to anonymity online. Remain ever vigilant people that it does not come to this here, because there are people in our government that will look at this and go, "Hey, that's a great idea....."
 @dg54321 You have to go slightly back in history and look at the period that the IRA was planting bombs in Britain to understand the surveillance culture there. It is highly developed. However one wants to look at it, life goes on there and we should remember here that if you walk into a mall here you are on more cameras, that can zoom in far closer and in greater detail, than anything government has or plans to do. When I worked at a department store they told us cameras could zoom in on a cash register area and see what we were writing in a note if need be. This was supposedly to help catch people who played price tag switching games for outside accomplices.Â
 @dg54321 VPN....encrypted data that they cannot see as easily.
 @Jalharad  Or Tor.