Big Brother-I don't mean the TV show!

The Conned'em coalition have taken on the role of Big Brother to try and dumb down freedom of speech and plan to watch what we do in more ways than you can shake a stick at.

The following are two emails I received this week please read and be concerned if nothing else be aware,

"Dear
Please sign our petition against web and email snooping
Last week, the government sneaked into their Security Review a proposal to revive mass Internet surveillance.
Under the Kafka-esque title of the “Intercept Modernisation Programme”, this would mean interception of every online communication by every UK citizen, and recording who is talking to who.
Every email, website, Facebook message or chatroom message would be recorded.
If that sounds expensive and vastly difficult, then you are right. The review says the government wants to waste £2 billion despite massive cuts across vital services.
The coalition’s said they would aim to “end the storage of Internet and email records without good reason”. We need to remind them that they promised to protect our civil liberties. ORG and our friends at No2ID and Privacy International fought off these plans under Labour – we can fight them off again.
In just one day, yesterday, over 1,000 people signed our petition.
Please add your name – and tell your friends.
Sign our petition
Thank you,

Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
Find out more here"

"Dear

The government has just announced plans to spy on us all. They want to log the e-mail, internet, phone and text messages of everyone in the UK. [1] Pretty much every other government project is facing cuts. But this new snooping project has just been promised £2 billion. [2]

The Conservatives and the Lib Dems both promised to “reverse the rise of the surveillance state”. [3] If we let them break that promise so easily, what will be next? Will we see the return of ID cards? 90 days detention without trial? We need to act fast now to stop them tearing up their promise of a fresh start on civil liberties.

A huge petition against phone and internet snooping will prove that we aren’t going to take this lying down. We can make sure the government realise they should expect angry voters and bad headlines about broken promises. That could be enough to make them back down.

Click here to add your name to the petition against phone and internet snooping:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-the-snooping-plan/

The government seems to think they can slip these plans through on the quiet. They hid them in the small print while the news was all about brutal spending cuts. That means we need to build a big petition against these plans quickly. That way we can make the government realise that whatever else is going on, they're still not going to get away with new Big Brother-style surveillance projects.

38 Degrees members know how to create a huge public outcry when the government attacks our civil liberties. Last year the Labour government thought they could force through internet disconnection plans without anyone noticing. 20,000 of us e-mailed their MPs and donated to fund full-page adverts in The Times and the Guardian on the day MPs voted on the new law. Back then, the government relied on the pre-election rush to get around us, but this time we can make sure they have nowhere to hide.

Click here to sign the petition to put a stop to the government’s snooping plans:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/stop-the-snooping-plan/

Thanks for being involved,

Johnny, Hannah, David and 38 Degrees team

NOTES
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-websi...
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/21/surveillance-government-legisla...
[3] http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/09/~/media/Files/Pol...

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