HACKER OF THE YARD

Shami Chakrabarti, concerned about these intrusive powers.

Civil liberties groups in the UK have been warning of Britain becoming a police state for quite some time, and with pressures increasing for I.D cards and some very draconian laws being introduced in recent years their concerns are now turning to alarm.

On Monday 5th January 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported comments made by Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, who was extremely worried about new EU proposals for the bugging of personal computers.

The EU is proposing that the police would not need any warrants to bug anyones computer in what is known as “remote searching” to monitor web-site use and e-mails. Although the police already have some powers under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which has been used for a small number of operations, the EU wants to open the floodgates for official computer hacking and it wants in on the action.

Under these EU proposal it could make a demand on our police to hack into someone’s computer then feed it the information gleaned. This for those who care about their liberties, personal freedoms and privacy is frightening. The EU could, at a whim, hack into the computers of anyone such as this blogger and other anti-EU pro-UK organisations to monitor their personal e-mails and activities.

Shami Chakrabarti said: “These are very intrusive powers, as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home. “The public will want this controlled by new legislation and judicial authorisation. Without those safeguards it’s a devistating blow to any notion of personal privacy.”

Naturally, our EU sycophantic Government is all in favour of surrendering the rights of those they are elected to represent to the EU which is not elected and only represents itself. A Home Office spokesman said: “The UK has agreed to a strategic approach towards tackling cyber crime on the same basis as all member states.” What the Government may find, if it ever deemed to consult or ask the people of the UK, is that they do not agree and it is not ok. If PC Hackwer of the Yard comes calling he will not be made welcome. The only information he can pass on to the EU is that it can shove its unwanted intrusions up the parts of the EU where the sun don’t shine!