Ok, like many others Ive signed an epetition on the gvt website.
I was a bit perturbed when the email I clicked to confirm my signature disappeared entirely from my inbox…
anyway knowing what this gvt is like Ive been paranoid ever since that they may have something on their site that would download itself to a harddrive – to allow them to continue to track a persons internet usage, if they should want.
Looking up this, ive found out a bit about web-bugs, and also that the Whitehouse has been illegally using them, – some of these bugs have a life of 35 YEARS on your computer…..they can track 3rd party internet usage, or look at the contents of a hard drive and report back to the bug owner, and if you are sent one in an emails, it can send your entire email folder back – For the USA they were tracking, for example, people who checked on the anti-drugs pages of the website.
DOes any1 know if the UK government is using stuff like this on their websites???
It does make you wonder why have this epetition thing anyway when they dont take any notice of what people say…so is it a case of “we know where you pesky protesters live” or “we know where you live, and we also know what you read on the internet” – – the article about the USA use of webbugs is below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1675325,00.html
