Several German magazines, like Spiegel, announced that the German government plans to start handing blacklists to ISPs in an effort to censor certain types of content, like child pornography.
Also Financial Times reports that the UK plans to force ISPs to start collecting data on copyright infringers, making it easier for copyright holders to sue them.
The problem with these actions is that once you start employing this kind of technology, it’s easy to start using it for other purposes. The ISPs will have to collect data “on serious and repeated infringers of copyright law.” Ok, who decides what “serious” and “repeated” means? The ISPs? That can’t be good.
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Privacy Intrusions and Censorship From European ISPs
Several German magazines, like Spiegel, announced that the German government plans to start handing blacklists to ISPs in an effort to censor certain types of content, like child pornography.
Also Financial Times reports that the UK plans to force ISPs to start collecting data on copyright infringers, making it easier for copyright holders to sue them.
The problem with these actions is that once you start employing this kind of technology, it’s easy to start using it for other purposes. The ISPs will have to collect data “on serious and repeated infringers of copyright law.” Ok, who decides what “serious” and “repeated” means? The ISPs? That can’t be good.
Read more on Mashable!
What do you think about this? Will your privacy be invaded?