Government responded to the petition against UK new surveillance laws
petition.parliament.uk
petition.parliament.uk
I literally spit coffee all over my monitor when I read that, so thanks UK gov :/
> The Government is clear that, at a time of heightened security threat, it is essential
Ah, because 'terrorists'. A tiny minority that these laws would never do anything to stop. Now it makes sense?!
I wonder what the debate would look like? It would probably be well rehearsed with all the appropriate dialogues which has the right amount of words "terrorists" and "pedophile" mixed with it and life made difficult to anyone who calls bullshit on these kind of intrusive laws.
That started over a week ago.
A spokewoman for the Home Office said this when asked about ordinary people circumventing logging by using a VPN:
"Terrorists and serious criminals will always seek to avoid detection"[1]
In that context, this is basically implying that anyone who values their privacy must be a terrorist or criminal. It scares me where we are going with this...