[Tom4784]

It's just an excuse to invade the privacy of anyone they please. So sick of our rights being violated and justified by them saying it's because of terrorists like it's a buzzword they're holding on to for dear life.

[Red Moon]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's just an excuse to invade the privacy of anyone they please. So sick of our rights being violated and justified by them saying it's because of terrorists like it's a buzzword they're holding on to for dear life.

It is mass surveillance like we have never seen before. The government will know so much about us and what we do in our lives and who we talk too, what websites we visit and more. They will have data on everyone one of us like they have never had before.

Even after the actual records of the communications have disappeared, after a year, the profile of what we have been doing can be kept by the government and the security services and this can be added to year on year. By the time you die there will be a file of you on a government computer with more much information than anything they record about us now.

In the wrong hands this information controlled by some rouge right wing or left wing government could be used to control and persecute people, just like the KGB didn't in the USSR and like what happens in North Korea today. Could you imagine what Hitler would have done with such information?

Soon people will be saying that they can't talk on the phone, send a text or instant message in case someone is listening. It won't solve the problem of terrorist and other unsavoury types in society it just drive the communication to places where it is safe from the eyes of May and her snoopers.