A Look at Digital Governmental Eavesdropping

Online regulations and cyber-patrolling are going to get more serious in the coming days. You are being watched online and this is going to be more legally binding soon. Since the age of print and telecommunications, the legal and policing arms were able to track, audit and control all communications taking place through this media.

However the advent electronic communications such as emails, chat, etc, the challenges to tracking these electronic communications has posed new challenges. With the advent of social media platforms where terra-bytes of real-time data are being created by the common public over free-to-use platforms, governments are forced to retune their legal and policing modes.

Full story: http://thenextweb.com/me/2010/10/05/a-look-at-digital-governmental-eavesdropping/

TNW

-- 2010-10-13

Government invasion and the inevitable abuse of online privacy that comes with it will just drive development and widespread adoption of encryption. In the long term they are locking themselves out.