Your views: Big Brother snooping

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Antony said: "[P]erhaps if everyone got together and, at the same time, just sent Jacqui Smith an email stating their objection to the government's current direction on our liberties, this might just serve as an efficient passive protest.”

Micheal was a bit worried about the prospect of being a spammer, but managed to justify it. “After all, copying an email to someone is not exactly spamming - especially if the recipient has expressed an interest in knowing about who we send emails to.”

Keith had another idea, in the same vein. “How about if we all went surfing on the same day and explored what the official muppets might consider suspicious, that would blow the noseys out of the water with data overload.”

Can it even work?

John pondered if the information would even be useful. “If all they are going to do is prove that someone visited this site or that and not 'capture the content' what in Heaven's name is the value?”

Steve was wondering the same thing – how could the government identify users, given public access points and the number of wireless routers left open, not to mention anonymisers?

Sharon added: “Someone pointed out that without the content of emails to give context then the system is flawed from the outset. But don’t tell Jacqui that else she’ll be after content too.”

But then, as Timothy soberly notes: “The government as well as others are already far too intrusive in our lives and business now. Big Brother is probably monitoring this communication now.”

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