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The UK government will tomorrow publish draft legislation to regulate the use of encryption and require ISPs to log which websites their customers visit for a year. The government has previously expressed irritation at the idea of some communications being out of government reach. There is an (inevitably toothless) petition.
The silver lining is perhaps that the government still cannot comprehend that not all secure communications involve a communications provider. The government appears to be using the door in the face technique, making the bill as over the top as possible so they can appear to compromise later.
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UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 04 2015, @02:49PM
It seems that they just don't get that privacy is a basic human right
Governments do not get rights. Governments do not care about rights at all. When it comes to securing your rights, government is not your friend and it is not your defender. It is the biggest enemy of your rights in existence. Other criminals may also pose a danger to your rights, but only government can do so with legal impunity.
The assertion in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" is a complete fiction with regards to all governments in existence today. Governments only care about rights as much as they need to to keep their farm animals happy and healthy, preventing revolt. Individual politicians only pay lip service to rights to get elected, and the rare exceptions rarely get elected (and if they do, once they get a taste of the power they have, they become corrupted addicts just like all the rest of them).
If you are hoping to persuade your government anything at all about your rights, you will hope until you die and never see your hope fulfilled. You are the farm animal and they are the farmers.
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