Posts Tagged ‘Celebrity Big Brother’

No, I’m not talking about the latest series of celeb bb, although I am embarrassingly addicted. I know its not the done thing but like some ghastly freak show I can’t avert my eyes. Damn those d-listers!

No, I’m referring to the news that the Home Office has announced that details of every email in the UK has to be kept on record by Internet Service Providers. The ISPs have to record who sent the email, to whom and when, and the data can be accessed by more than 600 public bodies, including the police, should they request to do so.

Civil liberty groups are predictably up-in-arms about it all but I suspect most people wouldn’t be that fussed. My emails are really not that interesting, so if some PC wants to read my inane ramblings about Tottenham Hotspur, English cricket and music then they can be my guest. I’m a gmail user, so I am used to my emails being trawled through anyway.

I think that civil liberty groups can sometimes get all het about things that they feel we should be het up about, when the reality is in fact, meh. And with Twitter’s recent move to the mainstream many people offer up incredible amounts of personal data every day without thinking of the consequences, so it is hard to stress too much about someone trawling through your emails.

What do you reckon - anyone outraged by this?