You can already see the stirrings of it in fact:
I’m prepared to bet that the next major government online initiative
will not be some post-your-comments-here consultation gimmick. It will
be a heavyweight Internet Crime and Security Bill. It will ostensibly
be aimed at protecting Mrs Miggins and her PC from fraudsters,
pornographers and terrorists. But it will also give the state sweeping
powers to shut down internet service providers and snoop around your
hard drive. It will be counter-reformation.gov.uk.
Yes, Probably
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There’s no question of this. The moves in other sectors and the “feelers” put out in the economy currently suggest the agenda is going along pretty well. It will meet a hiccup in the U.S. on Jan 1, 2009 but overall will proceed to the induced squeeze by 2011.
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Moves are already afoot to introduce something like this in Germany. But much sneakier as I understand it. The police could snoop around on anybody’s pc without them ever having to be told. Not sure if this will get past the Constitutional Court, but that’s the way the Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble intends it. Perhaps the next step would be to introduce something like this through the EU to make sure all member state are in line?
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