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Thu, 12 Nov 2009

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/Security/e-mail: Big Brother Taking Over Europe

This article[1] talks about the increasingly tight noose around the throats of users of electronic communications in Europe:

Now, the Interception Modernisation Programme plans to force all electronic communication providers (wireless companies, cable companies, internet service providers, etc.) to keep a record of every communication by every customer for a period of 1-year, and make the data available to 653 public agencies.

You must consider all unencrypted e-mail communications to be *public* communications being read by any number of hackers and bureaucrats, and susceptible to being posted on a public website at any time.

I really do not understand people who do take measures to protect their privacy, which seems to be the vast majority of people. But there are a lot of things I do not understand, I guess....

[1] http://www.sovereignman.com/personal-privacy/spying-on-your-phone-and-email

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