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<blockquote data-quote="Paul123" data-source="post: 592699" data-attributes="member: 57645">I think another question is does mass surveillance actually do any good regarding homeland security? Denmark introduced laws similar to the UK&#039;s Snoopers charter a while back, but recently repealed them when it was found they had only been ever useful in one single case. Add to that the fact that the cost is estimated to be £1Bn a year (which the government wants to pass on to web and phone companies which will mean higher costs) and financially it makes no sense either; that money could be better spent on other services.Despite the Government saying that petitions with over 100K votes on their website will be discussed and getting 208K votes to discuss repealing it, they made an exception in this case, and would not do so.I would actually argue the Snoopers charter makes us less safe as the Government are undermining encryption and demanding surveillance backdoors in order to do this surveillance. Things which if they fall into the wrong hands (and the Government has a pretty bad record of doing this) could be catastrophic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul123, post: 592699, member: 57645"] I think another question is does mass surveillance actually do any good regarding homeland security? Denmark introduced laws similar to the UK's Snoopers charter a while back, but recently repealed them when it was found they had only been ever useful in one single case. Add to that the fact that the cost is estimated to be £1Bn a year (which the government wants to pass on to web and phone companies which will mean higher costs) and financially it makes no sense either; that money could be better spent on other services. Despite the Government saying that petitions with over 100K votes on their website will be discussed and getting 208K votes to discuss repealing it, they made an exception in this case, and would not do so. I would actually argue the Snoopers charter makes us less safe as the Government are undermining encryption and demanding surveillance backdoors in order to do this surveillance. Things which if they fall into the wrong hands (and the Government has a pretty bad record of doing this) could be catastrophic. [/QUOTE]

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