Yesterday,
the United Kingdom's privacy probably died. If not, it's still taking deep
breaths to alleviate fatal injuries as the government made blows against our
digital privacy. The Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB) or "Snooper's
Charter" will now allow different government agencies to procure
information from ISPs who now have to keep customer Internet histories for one
year before a purge.
This is daunting and probably far worse than cameras
looking at people everywhere.
The
Orwellian dystopia is happening. George Orwell knew exactly what would happen
in the near future. All it needs now is a political agenda. Oh, wait.
There is
nothing left but scraps for every Briton's true privacy. While VPNs are a great
solution, the government will find a workaround that would allow them to access
your true history. Virtual Private
Networks scramble your data and re-translate
it upon arrival to a website. Before the website information arrives to your
computer, it has been scrambled and once again de-scrambled by another server
in the VPN.
Local VPNs
can be shut down but offshore ones -- given their countries still have no
privacy laws -- can continue to operate for foreign clients.
It's only a
matter of time until we can see who the real "Big Brother" is.
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