email watch

[Griswold]

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.

Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time.

The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it.
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Surely if phone hacking is illegal, then so should this be?
Who are the people who are going to be reading them and how can we TRUST them? so far we have not been able to trust anything this LibLabCon-men government has said or done, so why should we trust the people they employ to read our mail?

I personally have nothing to hide, apart from the odd porn, but am dead against anyone i do not know reading any of my mail, not even my mother gets to read it.

[Earl]

I don't agree with it, but I'm not about to panic. They won't be reading anyone or everyone's mail. Just Abdul's mostly.

[CambCelt]

I don't agree with it, but I'm not about to panic. They won't be reading anyone or everyone's mail. Just Abdul's mostly.

Aye.

GCHQ won't be bothering me, and I won't be bothering them.

[Griswold]

Abdul I reckon will be fine, its those who speak up against him who will be targeted. the fact that he may be emailing Pakistan for the lastest rocket launching catalogue is neither here or there, but if you mention his sandals in an email, you are nicked.

[Griswold]

Hope they do not target sickipedia.
Some heinous crimes have been committed on there, like telling jokes about the non indigenous.

[Earl]

Abdul I reckon will be fine, its those who speak up against him who will be targeted. the fact that he may be emailing Pakistan for the lastest rocket launching catalogue is neither here or there, but if you mention his sandals in an email, you are nicked.

What do you base that on? They're certainly locking up brown-skinned Muslim chaps for just talking about being naughty, I've not seen anyone anti-Muslim being arrested.

[Ben]

The text of the OP is a bit ambiguous. This new thing won't give them any more powers to read emails and stuff, it will allow them to see who you are in contact with online, not what you are saying at all. That would require a warrant, just the same as listening to your phone calls always has anytime the cops have wanted to listen to you.

There are some good articles about it, but I'm on the phone so it's a pain to find them.

I personally don't give a shit, I'm not interesting enough to spy on, so they'd be wasting their time on me.

[Ck]

If that's the case if I ever decide to be a baddy I shall use an alias name.

[Earl]

So they won't be able to just read the content of these e-mails, just see who you're e-mailing?

[Ben]

Plans for greater email and web monitoring powers spark privacy fears | World news | The Guardian

a system to allow security officials to scrutinise who is talking to whom, and exactly when the conversations are taking place, but not the content of the message.

Under these proposals they wouldn't get any extra powers to read any emails whatsoever, it would be who someone contacts.

BBC News - Web and email monitoring plans will not be rammed through, says Clegg

Internet service providers (ISPs) are obliged to keep details of users' web access, email and internet phone calls for 12 months, under an EU directive from 2009.

Although the content of the calls is not kept, the sender, recipient, time of communication and geographical location does have to be recorded.

The proposed new law - which the Home Office says will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows" - would extend those requirements to social networking sites and internet phone services such as Skype.

So reading that, it's being done anyway and has been for 3 years, this just extends things a little.

Again, there's nothing whatsoever in there saying these powers will give anyone extra powers to actually see what is being emailed etc.

Ck, having read the articles, it looks like it's ISPs that are collecting the information, so what name you used in your email account wouldn't matter.

If you really want to know what can be done on top of that, have a read of RIPA or the Wikipedia link about it - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia