With the power to monitor what anyone looks at on the web comes to ability to understand how you think. What your interests are and how active you are in the pursuit of those interests.
It doesn’t really matter if your system is encrypted or if you delete your cache and web history every day our government, and undoubtedly the rest of the West due our governments generosity, can see where you have been from the data supplied by your ISP.
Most of it will be of little interest to them. Most of us go to the BBC web site even if it is a propaganda site for the Government and many of us go to sites like Google, Bing, Facebook, MySpace, eBay etc. all of which contain interesting data as well but I think they will only go there for data when they are looking more closely at you which will probably be triggered by somewhere you have been or someone you have spoken to. Most likely in real life via a phone call or a visit to someone on a watch list. There are thousands of people being watched according to our government. The chances of you knowing one will be pretty slim unless it is the wrong place at the wrong time in which case you are just unlucky.
However, that will soon change when they start analysing the data available from the ISP’s. Even without going to Google they can analyse your browsing trends and put a label on you. Are you someone that is doing as the State demands or are you browsing terrorist related sites, downloading survivalist files and reading anti government web sites. The software will analyse your trails to see if you are starting from somewhere safe, go to a Libertarian site and then return to pro government sites for most of your data or if you start at Libertarian sites and follow mainly anti government links. It will even be able to predict your political persuasion and if you are out of the norm your name will come up on a print out you don’t want to be on.
Of course at that point you will get an analyst giving your online life a quick visit and deciding where you fit in priorities and you could very well find yourself having to explain how come you have a bag of fertiliser, a packet of car body filler and a download of Osama bin Laden giving one of his, thankfully, rare speeches.
What is more likely though is that when you are identified as BNP, Libertarian or even, God forbid, a Liberal, you will find you are up for investigation by HMRC and given internal searches every time you are flying or get pulled up by Plod.
On the plus side there will be so many people labelled this way that Plod and the security services will be overloaded. One the negative side as the computer analysis programmes get more sophisticated they will integrate with other systems and start making your life hell automatically by rejecting card payments unless it is verified, refusing credit, failing CRB and other trivial but annoying issues.
Our government is not there yet but once the EUSSR gets into its stride we can expect this to be used against all dissenters and opponents of its programmes like climate change.
The power of the oppressor state
With the power to monitor what anyone looks at on the web comes to ability to understand how you think. What your interests are and how active you are in the pursuit of those interests.
It doesn’t really matter if your system is encrypted or if you delete your cache and web history every day our government, and undoubtedly the rest of the West due our governments generosity, can see where you have been from the data supplied by your ISP.
Most of it will be of little interest to them. Most of us go to the BBC web site even if it is a propaganda site for the Government and many of us go to sites like Google, Bing, Facebook, MySpace, eBay etc. all of which contain interesting data as well but I think they will only go there for data when they are looking more closely at you which will probably be triggered by somewhere you have been or someone you have spoken to. Most likely in real life via a phone call or a visit to someone on a watch list. There are thousands of people being watched according to our government. The chances of you knowing one will be pretty slim unless it is the wrong place at the wrong time in which case you are just unlucky.
However, that will soon change when they start analysing the data available from the ISP’s. Even without going to Google they can analyse your browsing trends and put a label on you. Are you someone that is doing as the State demands or are you browsing terrorist related sites, downloading survivalist files and reading anti government web sites. The software will analyse your trails to see if you are starting from somewhere safe, go to a Libertarian site and then return to pro government sites for most of your data or if you start at Libertarian sites and follow mainly anti government links. It will even be able to predict your political persuasion and if you are out of the norm your name will come up on a print out you don’t want to be on.
Of course at that point you will get an analyst giving your online life a quick visit and deciding where you fit in priorities and you could very well find yourself having to explain how come you have a bag of fertiliser, a packet of car body filler and a download of Osama bin Laden giving one of his, thankfully, rare speeches.
What is more likely though is that when you are identified as BNP, Libertarian or even, God forbid, a Liberal, you will find you are up for investigation by HMRC and given internal searches every time you are flying or get pulled up by Plod.
On the plus side there will be so many people labelled this way that Plod and the security services will be overloaded. One the negative side as the computer analysis programmes get more sophisticated they will integrate with other systems and start making your life hell automatically by rejecting card payments unless it is verified, refusing credit, failing CRB and other trivial but annoying issues.
Our government is not there yet but once the EUSSR gets into its stride we can expect this to be used against all dissenters and opponents of its programmes like climate change.