People don't understand the technology that is now available to governments of the world. We are soon going to be a wireless society in which the world will be one mass wireless grid. Everything and everyone with be connected to the internet , your homes and all appliances will be internet enabled .

It is not just your reality

In 2004, the F.B.I. looked at a sampling of all the tips to see how many had made a “significant contribution” to identifying a terrorist, deporting a terrorism suspect, or developing a confidential informant about terrorists.

Just 1.2 percent of the tips from 2001 to 2004 had made such a contribution. Two years later, the F.B.I. reviewed all the leads from the warrantless wiretapping part of Stellarwind between August 2004 and January 2006. None had proved useful.


see https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...-nsa-fbi.shtml

and

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...port.html?_r=0

and enlightening quote from the FBI

"You are sending us garbage" ( Page 638 of the second link)

Not in my house... I like cogs and gears

Seriously though, this (the nefarious aspect of your posts) will barely affect the savvy.

Do let me know when they are coming round to do it so I can be out.

Sorry, but there are no points to be scored here for you today. This entire process was started with the EU's Data Retention Directive and Blair's OTT implementation of it. This is why Labour voted for it as well.

Both parties are full of utterly despicable authoritarian vermin, the epitome of which is that repugnant sell-out Chakrabarti.

When you are looking for a needle in a haystack it's not a good idea to add more hay.
Yet here we have the powers that be doing just that.

Oh no, does that mean the government will find out that I order my knickers from Marks and Spencers.

Pretty up sums it up though afaik Labour abstained in the vote in an heroic gesture of defiance as in shrugs shoulders and mutters 'whatever'.

The final commons vote was 444 to 69, so there wasn't that much abstaining going on...

Doesn't look like it but then the snooping doesn't apply to them, I read Labour abstained from a BBC report.

This government could pass a law saying Eric Pickles was entitled to eat your first born and your only question would be to ask if he prefers mint or apple sauce.

Too late, they now know, still at least the source of the rest of your underwear is still secret well untill next year at least.

How long before Rupert Murdock nicely asks for the names and addresses of everybody that watched Game of Thrones illegally online?

They did initially, then that ineffectual tosspot Burnham won some half-arsed concessions so they all got their pom-poms out for their boy.

Were the said concessions that MPs were shielded from the snooping?

Absolutely awful and, on the off chance Theresa May might read this: You're a cuuuuuuuuuuuuunt.

One of them was that those in 'sensitive professions' are shielded and whilst I haven't checked, I've got a week's wage that says MP is one such profession...

The Lib Dems didn't want this and blocked it when they were in government .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22292474

If you wish to attract her attention, drop things like bomb, jihadist, KNO3 etc... into your post too (well, i've done it for you now. You (we) just have to wait for the knock on the door and orange fashion wear)

Very nicely put. I like that.

A quick google indicates journalists, lawyers and MPs are shielded.

Well, fan my brow!

Indeed, I mean none of them ever get up to anything illegal.

Oh, dear. They feed us swill and take all the bacon for themselves. Animal Farm was also spot on. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others...

When one needle is seen poking someone in the eye its nice to have the thread to follow to the other needles. From terrorist cells to paedophile rings to criminal conspirators, finding out who the associates are of any you catch helps identify suspects and prove links and communications.

While for crimes committed via the internet having a thread to follow helps in identification of the criminals.