I am much less worried about letting GCHQ trawl my traffic data than I am letting my local council noodle around in it. Mostly because GCHQ probably already do it - they certainly have the capability, but also because local councils have shown themselves to be corrupt and "data-leaky".
I'm not bothered about my traffic data being trawled. I oppose this bill because it's stupid - the people who have to keep data are not clearly defined; hiding some of that data is trivial for criminals; keeping that data is an unreasonable burden on some (but not all?) ISPs; etc etc.
It's frustrating that there are some really clueful politicians and advisors, yet governments keep pumping out really stupid laws about computers and networking.
(http://www.gchq.gov.uk/AboutUs/Pages/index.aspx)
I agree that's suboptimal.
I am much less worried about letting GCHQ trawl my traffic data than I am letting my local council noodle around in it. Mostly because GCHQ probably already do it - they certainly have the capability, but also because local councils have shown themselves to be corrupt and "data-leaky".
I'm not bothered about my traffic data being trawled. I oppose this bill because it's stupid - the people who have to keep data are not clearly defined; hiding some of that data is trivial for criminals; keeping that data is an unreasonable burden on some (but not all?) ISPs; etc etc.
It's frustrating that there are some really clueful politicians and advisors, yet governments keep pumping out really stupid laws about computers and networking.