Internet Tracking, the Death of Privacy

Before I start I would just like to thank the conservative government for getting my blog out of its downward spiral and back to its original angry roots. I'm currently watching BBC news and noticing that two of the biggest stories seem to be the polar opposites of each other. Today James Murdoch has stepped down from his post as head of BSkyB, as a result of the phone hacking scandal. Put simply, monitoring people’s activities without their permission has lost him his job. The other story is that the government are pushing forward with their attempts to pass a law that would allow them to monitor any activity that anyone makes on the internet in Britain. The exact thing that has begun to break down the Murdoch empire is not only about to become legal but it will become mandatory law. Benjamin Franklin once said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." The government wish to remove the right to privacy to attempt to prevent cyber-terrorism. However I am almost certain that passing this law will increase the activities of many groups such as anonymous. The people this law aims to target will easily avoid it and will see it as provocation. This is an entirely new kind of warfare but the government are trying to fight it using 19th century methods, they are marching into unknown territory and drawing their own battle lines. These lines will be crossed and ignored and the only people to suffer as a result will be us, the innocent public.