Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
Fab, so what's it going to achieve then?
Have a bit of foresight Eric. Imagine just for one second the government isn't some squeaky clean organisation that just wants what's best for you at all times.

Let's say next year they re-introduce the Poll Tax which turns out to be just as unfair as it was all those years ago and people decide to protest it again.

So, someone sets up www.smashthegovernment.com as a place for people to meet up and plan demonstrations and other courses of action.

This new law will allow this less-than-squeaky-clean government (and their algorithms and AI) to see everyone who visited that site, then cross-reference that with other sites you've looked at any hey presto, they can see how much of a threat you are and also what they can fit you up with to crush you into submission, if they consider you in any way threatening to them.

I'm sure you've heard the phrase "information is power", well this new law is handing a huge amount of power to a group of people that may not have your best interests at heart.

Do you really trust these people to do the right thing for you at all times? These people who steal our taxes to build their duck ponds, have clandestine meetings with powerful CEO's, that wage wars overseas against our wishes, that didn't prosecute a single banker after the crash of 2008, that prosecuted no one when it was revealed that we had all been under illegal surveillance by NSA/GCHQ, that purposely hamper the high-profile paedophile investigation of members of their own profession?

And that's just ONE, fairly mild example of how this new law could be used. Take a look at all the agencies that have access to previously private information, you cannot begin to imagine just how many ways there are for those agencies to use that information to either extract money or compliance from people.

But the people who have "nothing to hide" will be fine, right?