Facebook, Bebo and My Space could be monitored by the government.

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I just heard this on BBC Breakfast, !!!!!! ? is the government snorting these days. I just don't see Al Qaeda's members signing up to these sites to make friends.:rolleyes: Why don't the government just pass a law that every room in every home should have a CCTV camera in it and have done, and send the military around to anyone who dares to pack a backpack.:mad:

I can't find a BBC link but here is one from The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/facebook/5046447/Facebook-could-be-monitored-by-the-government.html

Our privacy and liberties are been 'hoovered' up bit by bit by Labour, whilst McNulty, Smith, and Butler etc... 'hoover' up our taxes to line their own pockets. They are despicable.

Time2Go_25

and this is related to " House Prices, the Economy & Recession" in what way?

abaxas

pdel61 wrote: »

and this is related to " House Prices, the Economy & Recession" in what way?

Nothing to do with house prices, but lots to do with the movement from a capitalist economy to a paranoid communist one.

vivatifosi

I do see this as related to the recession. Yesterday we had the Governor of the Bank of England telling us there was no money left for economic stimulus and people on this board were starting to ask what should be cut.

In the meantime the government comes up with yet another totally meaningless way to fritter away both our finances and our liberties simultaneously. This kind of spend should be being cut in the current economy, not grown.

scousethife

They couldnt sucessfully monitor two dogs haveing a shag on a street corner never mind something this big.

Move along nothing of interest here folks.

lostinrates

I know a couple of big bosses whose HR and security departments have social networking accounts to monitor. DH's employer strongly disencourage use of social networking sites

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I know a couple of big bosses whose HR and security departments have social networking accounts to monitor. DH's employer strongly disencourage use of social networking sites

That's probably not a bad idea. Companies are paying staff to work, which they aren't if they are spending all their time updating their Facebook pages. However how do you then distinguish between the likes of Facebook and say Linked In, which is a professional networking site but is also a form of social networking?

I just object strongly to being monitored, not because I have anything to hide, but because I don't want the government following my every keystroke, I don't want google taking pictures of my house that show my make of burglar alarm, I don't want people checking who I'm calling on my mobile or house phone, its none of their damn business, especially when it may divert money from good causes, such as my future state pension.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's probably not a bad idea. Companies are paying staff to work, which they aren't if they are spending all their time updating their Facebook pages. However how do you then distinguish between the likes of Facebook and say Linked In, which is a professional networking site but is also a form of social networking?

I agree about being monitored. re work, in DHs employers case its not time but confidentiality thats an issue. I don't, for example, know what DH is working on, but I know where he's working this week. I can make a good guess. Me guessing and a whole raft of friends in possibly ''rival'' or ''associated'' positions is a different thing.

I'm also aware of a fraud that was significantly evidenced, astoundingly, through social network comments, and (work) monitored emails.

kabayiri

Is this latest government initiative linked to the planned Comms database?

That planned to track all email, phone call, and text message transmissions.....not the content, just the when/where etc.

With every major IT task like this there is a large potential for cost overrun and failure, therefore it is relevant to this thread in my view.

Wookster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I just object strongly to being monitored, not because I have anything to hide, but because I don't want the government following my every keystroke, I don't want google taking pictures of my house that show my make of burglar alarm, I don't want people checking who I'm calling on my mobile or house phone, its none of their damn business, especially when it may divert money from good causes, such as my future state pension.

Here here.

The sooner these sinister, authoritarian morons are voted out the better. Not only have they been financially illiterate, they are anti-democratic.

Rochdale_Pioneers

Several points:

1. EU directive forces member states to keep track of the internet. Facebook included or not this is not something that Labour are doing and teh Tories won't do
2. We've been monitoring phone calls for decades as part of ECHELON with email and the tinternet following as they were invented. In what way is any of this surveillance stuff new news? Make a phone call to anyone, say a few key words, and add "hello to the boys at Menwith Hill" on the end - they will hear it.