The UK has a brand new law that enables police and courts to make use of what are called “cyber sanctions” to restrict access to the social networks and instant messaging services in cases of hacking, fraud and online bullying. Sex offenders and those convicted of 'harassment or anti-social behaviour' also can have their internet access restricted or terminated under the new law.
Officials are now looking into whether "cyber tag" technology could be used to monitor offenders and report to authorities if break their bail or sentence conditions by using the internet.
"The Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will consider and scope the development of a new way of enforcing these orders, using ‘cyber-tags’ which are triggered by the offender breaching the conditions that have been put on their internet use, and which will automatically inform the police or probation service," cyber security strategy said.
It added that if the regime is a success restrictions on internet use could be imposed on "a wider group of offenders".
Police forces across the country will also follow the example of the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit by recruiting “cyber specials”; internet experts will be encouraged to volunteer as special constables to help investigate online crime.
And exactly who will that 'wider group of offenders' consist of? People who don't don't hold the proper politically correct view of Islam, perhaps? People who have a differing view on Britons being disarmed, or who dislike the government's economic, immigration or foreign policies? People who have a dissenting view on Britain's participation in the EU? The possibilities are endless once this gets started.
And depend of some or all of these definitions of 'a wider group of offenders' to be instituted. Britain is fast approaching the status of a non-free country.
3 comments:
Well, what did you expect in a CCTV country? Whatever the EU cannot impose on the UK because they are not in, the UK govt will.
I suspect there will be more Jews affected by this than Muslims.
Popular constables? Based on my growing up in the Soviet bloc, the similarity is starting to show.
Fortunately it isn't yet law, just a wet dream by some technically illiterate politician. They haven't yet quite worked out how to enforce such bans. Whilst technically feasible with DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) for everyone within HMP Britain (Her Majesty's Prison) there isn't the hardware in place, nor the storage for the finds. You may be reassured that they are working on those deficiencies within the Internet Modernisation Plan, so alas it will come to pass within my lifetime.
Didn't you get the memo? We're all criminals now! http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2011/11/28/internet-criminals/
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