New Email law

[TomB]

Hi All,

Came across this on the BBC website UK e-mail law 'attack on rights'

how ridiciulous is this, I read it an instantly my blood boiled.

I mean the governement are so totally useless at managing the data they hav.

What right do they have to keep a record of every email i send/receive?

Oh and it will cost up to £70m to implement it? Hmmm don't they have better things to spend that money on like ruining out economy?

Honestly whatever next?

 

[Former Member 1]

Honestly whatever next?

The more often I read stories like this the more I become convinced of the breathtaking dishonesty and utter corruption of our political overlords.

There is, of course, no practical or useful purpose to any of this. In fact the ONLY purpose MOST government IT projects and operations serve is to provide a means of diverting public money into the pockets of certain 'favoured' private individuals. The same can be said for much of so-called 'defence' spending. And for much of the money that's wasted in health and in policing; ALL of the public services in fact.

The truth of all this is, as I have said before, that the people who 'lead' us are, on the whole irresponsible, frivolous, childish, greedy and more often that not, incompetent. And it happens at all levels of management in government-lead organisation.

This latest scheme will have at its heart the ego of some feckless twit and the grasping paw of some otherwise unemployable 'old boy'. It's actually NOT about finding out what anyone's up to; for it never will. It's akin to paying the village idiots to count the leaves on the trees in order to keep them out of the way of the buses....

Trouble is we have so many idiots and so many trees there's not enough left to RUN the bloody buses!

 

[DickW]

I thought the purpose most government IT projects and operations serve is to provide a means of diverting public money into the pockets of mainly US hardware and software companies! :001_rolleyes:

 

[Former Member 1]

I thought the purpose most government IT projects and operations serve is to provide a means of diverting public money into the pockets of mainly US hardware and software companies! :001_rolleyes:

:thumbup1: That's merely a fortunate side effect... :sneaky2: getting the money offshore where it can't be touched I mean.... :001_rolleyes:

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

This is disgusting and it also comes in the same week that the police are asking for powers to hack people's personal pc's. It just feels as if things are going to far.

Posted a link to an article below which shows that opposition is starting to gather. It also indicates that this is a law being pushed through from the EC. It also says some form o public consultation will take place. Hmmmmmmm

ISP email law changes meet stiff opposition | IT PRO

 

[stugster]

and it also comes in the same week that the police are asking for powers to hack people's personal pc's.

Obviously, if you use Easy PC Scotland for your computer support needs, even with permission, the police ain't gettin' in

Now, after that shameless plug!...

As far as I can see with this legislation for keeping all e-mails, the only details they're keeping are:
Time and Date
Who it's to
Who it's from

There are so many things wrong with this idea, but let me touch on a few that spring to my mind:

a) E-mail is designed to be a fast technology, and as such, the security on e-mail is questionable at best. It doesn't take much for someone to set up their own email server and start sending e-mails through the Internet in a hidden manner.

b) E-mail is a cheap technology, and there are hundreds (lets just say thousands) of free email providers out there that will happily take guff information about you (firstname, surname, etc.) So how they're going to track this (and how much money/time/resources it would take to track this) is unthinkable.

c) The amount of storage that is going to be required to keep EVERY SINGLE E-MAIL for a year is unimaginable. On average, Equiphase's mail servers send out over 250 e-mails an hour. That's 3000 a day. And sometimes much much more! 1,095,000 a year. Storing all this data (even though it's just the date, to, and from fields) is going to cost... and in comparison to other ISPs, we hardly host any sites!

d) After all is said and done, and the eejits proceed to roll out such a wildly stupid requirement, what exactly are they hoping to achieve? That maybe one of the million e-mails Equiphase sends (yes, that's not the receive by the way...) is going to be from a terrorist or someone who stole a loaf of bread the other week?

Without the content of the e-mail, what's the point? They say it's to track a users whereabouts at a particular point in time, but even then, I can be anywhere and send an email from my home machine.... so that just doesn't bode well for their argument.



In conclusion, the reason for this legislation being carried on is purely on the basis that if Government weren't working in this disgusting waste of time they're calling a Law, they'd have to think of something else to be doing to earn their keep.

 

[brandmantra]

govt. just wastage their resources on this kind of worthless job.

 

[Former Member 1]

In conclusion, the reason for this legislation being carried on is purely on the basis that if Government weren't working in this disgusting waste of time they're calling a Law, they'd have to think of something else to be doing to earn their keep.

Well, the thing is if they were EARNING their keep there wouldn't be a problem. This really is just another feckless waste of public money. And the people who will benefit are the 'connected' FOAFs, stockholders in 'connected' companies etc.

Of course isn't this part of some European directive? So it evidences corruption on a somewhat wider platform than the back of Gordon Broon's share portfolio.....