…you’ll fall for anything.
“On Friday, the Home Office petitioned parliament to add a vast array of organisations to that list. If their passes, everyone from the DTI, any local authority, the Food Standards Agency, the Home Office themselves (of course), and staggeringly enough, Consignia.
The final entry in the list says that “A Universal Service Provider within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000” has the same power as the secret services to read your traffic data. There’s only one USP in Britain right now, and that’s the provider previously known as the Royal Mail.
If the idea that the fricking Post Office has access to your web logs (access which would cost a competitive company millions, and would probably get them investigated by the Data Protection people), let alone every minor apparatchik on the block, you might want to kick up a fuss about this. It’s due to appear before MPs on June 18th, and the Lords a little after.
I faxed my MP this morning. Felt good.
» Stand.org.uk: “Post Office To Steam Open Your History File”
Petafloptimism 
I emailed my MP about this and got this reply…
> Thank you for your email (I hope no-one is
> snooping!)
>
> As far as I can see the issue you raise is
> likely to be the subject of
> what is called a Statutory Instrument (SI)
> which is a piece of secondary
> legislation built into Acts allowing the
> Secretary of State to amend the
> provisions as he/she thinks fit. The debate
> will take place upstairs with
> only 32 MPs on an SI committee.
>
> The Liberal Democrats are kicking up a fuss
> about it and demanding that it
> be debated on the floor of the House. We may
> not succeed in this.
>
> This is the kind of thing you might expect from
> the Tories – but what on
> earth does this Labour Government think it’s
> doing?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nigel Jones
> MP for Cheltenham
Lots of email addresses for UK MP’s here:
http://www.disabilityuk.com/socialcare/lib_dem_emails.htm
Fuck that mate… just learn about Strong Encryption and be done with it… Don’t work within the law, don’t work outside it – work above it (preferably 4096 bits above it)
P