Not at all that you know about.
So the UK is going to use “Black Boxes” for MitM (Man in the Middle) surveillance of all Gmail, Facebook, and, in fact, any SSL encrypted pages. The black box will decrypt them all, separate the header data from the content, and pass the header data back to the ISP for storage for one year.
Nice. So I’m thinking we’re going to be seeing an uptick in VPN services from the UK, as well as a downturn in any colocation and hosting services from there.
Will we see any outraged UK citizens pouring out of the country, screaming for their government to stay out of their Gmail!? Doubt it. Frankly, it’s easy enough to get around this issue with a cheap VPN service, like the ones many UK citizens already use to access U.S.-based video services, like Hulu.
And many might not even notice. It’s not like they are storing the content. They’re just storing the sender, receiver, subject line, date and time, IP address you sent or received it from, and suchlike. So what if they can geolocate the IP addresses and see where you were when you sent or received that email? So what if they know who you talk to? If you don’t do anything wrong, you won’t have your information looked at.
I mean, governments don’t make mistakes, right?
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