Police to be granted powers to view your internet browsing history

[NibblyPig]

Proxy in another country would be sufficient, it's very unlikely that the government would have the ability to subpoena records from another country, especially if they are only holding someone on suspicion without proof.

[SueEllen]

Proxy in another country would be sufficient, it's very unlikely that the government would have the ability to subpoena records from another country, especially if they are only holding someone on suspicion without proof.

Governments are very happy to pass information about supposed terrorists to each other. Though they don't always take the info onboard.

Also probably a good idea not to use a US based VPN.....

[xoggoth]

you might click on something on nicechristianladies.com and actually find yourself at andywsmum.com

Yeh, often when browsing charity sites I get directed to pigporn.net. Damn hackers.

[TestMangler]

Yeh, often when browsing charity sites I get directed to pigporn.net. Damn hackers.

I was looking for a picture of two Walking Dead type zombies for a poster I was making for a pub gig.

Google autifilled "Two zombies" with "Two zombies buggered my cat"

As someone on here used to say.....inneresting !

[Sysman]

How many of you are actually worried about police accessing your history ? Privacy matters aside, if they come knocking on your door and want to look at the history, I would gladly let them.

Have you not heard of the cases where local authorities have abused the existing anti-terrorist powers to snoop on the use of wheelie bins?

quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - who will guard the guardians?

The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st/2nd century Roman satirist. Although in its modern usage the phrase has universal, timeless applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of enforcing moral behaviour on women when the enforcers (custodes) are corruptible (Satire 6.346–348)

[Sysman]

I'd be embarrassed by the number of times I've inadvertently clicked on a link and ended up being redirected to a page belonging to the Daily Mail.

Also hijacked websites which take you off to a hard porn site etc etc.

[Sysman]

I wonder if looking at sites like ZH (critical of most govts du jour), YT videos not in line with 'received wisdom', etc. will be a red flag. Who knows, even browsing CUK could be one.

The scary bit is that they might completely misconstrue some of the stuff you search for.

Apparently at one point the FBI got pretty excited at the thought of nicking anyone interested in Apache Subversion

[EternalOptimist]

whinge, whinge, whinge.

you are contractors FGS. How can you make some money out of this ?

My plan is to set up a little university course then get people to sign up for 1000 quids a year. Their course work will involve a fair bit on internet web searching, so they will be pre-alibied when plod calls

my first course will be 'A history Rug munching lesbo sado-masochists in squirting orgy building nail bombs in the 21st century'

[greenlake]

[Pondlife]

People have been arrested wrongly, for the use of 3G PAYG sims. The sim seller is required to take a name and address for the sim.

I have a foreign SIM card that has no tie to my name or address and I can top up with cash.