Announcing the ‘CC Jacqui Smith all your email’ campaign
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Data Protection, Blog, Security, email, Internet on
Big Brother Britain is ever in the headlines, first with the news that the Home Secretary was planning a central database of every email sent, every mobile phone call made and every website browsed. This was swiftly followed by the denial, by the announcement that the Government was not planning any such central database at all. Instead, Jacqui Smith insisted that these plans had been scrapped and would be replaced by lots of smaller database to be maintained by individual Internet Service Providers at a cost of some £2 billion over the next 10 years. Of course, these databases will inevitably be linked and therefore easily searched as one by The Powers That Be, so it’s not exactly a U-turn of David Blunkett proportions.
Now comes the revelation that GCHQ, the super secret Government spy centre which everyone seems to know about anyway, is developing a £1 billion ‘Mastering the Internet’ technology which will do pretty much what it says on the tin: monitor and intercept every email sent, telephone call made, website visit and social network interaction. The Sunday Times says that a “huge room of super-computers will help the agency to monitor — and record — data passing through black-box probes placed at critical traffic junctions with internet service providers and telephone companies.”
While the Government is sticking to the ‘nothing to worry about here’ line by insisting that they will not be snooping on the content of any message but rather are merely interested in simply monitoring who is communicating with whom in order to help prevent crime and acts of terrorism, I would like to propose that we help them go the whole 10 yards and have full access to our email conversations at least.
So why don’t we just CC Jacqui Smith into every single email we send? I am sure that the Home Secretary will be able to find the time to sit down and read through them all, just in case we are talking to someone we shouldn’t be or saying something that could be deemed problematical. Better safe than sorry, and after all it is only a matter of doing one’s duty for Queen and country, and rather than cost us a couple of billion the Home Secretary, with her large expenses claims, could cover the cost of reading them all herself.
Oops, I nearly forgot: if you want to CC Jacqui Smith into all your emails you will need her email address.
smithjj@parliament.uk
Rated: 77.14% (7 votes)
Loading ...Comment by Jason - May 3, 2009 on 8:56 pm
Need to work out how to set up auto cc in Thunderbird! Save having to remember to do it each time.
Comment by - May 3, 2009 on 8:58 pm
Cool! Welcome patriotic campaigner number one, I am sure Jacqui Smith will be looking forward to reading your communications 
Comment by nick - May 3, 2009 on 9:37 pm
Eh? …just because exposure is a frequent ‘oops, silly me!’ moment for her, shouldn’t mean that it needs to be compulsory for the rest of us!
Comment by - May 3, 2009 on 9:57 pm
Yeah, but just imagine the effect if everyone sent a copy of everything they emailed to Jacqui Smith, and maybe another CC to their MP, might start to make them take these things a little more seriously when they find their mailboxes effectively drowning in our conversations, no?
Still, it is just a silly Sunday night idea
Comment by Nathan Zorn - May 4, 2009 on 1:57 am
Somewhere a former member of the Est German STASI is banging their head on the table and screaming, “Why didn’t we think of that. Why didn’t WE have Supercomputers”!!
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Comment by - May 4, 2009 on 8:25 am
Hey Since I correspond with several people in the UK (I’m from across the pond) should I cc her also?
Comment by Stuart - May 4, 2009 on 8:32 am
This campaign has been around for ages. Look for it on Google or Facebook…
Comment by - May 4, 2009 on 2:31 pm
Oh well, great minds think alike, or something
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