A UK resident? If so, prepare your anus.

[Buffer Overflow]

Best get a plentiful supply of Vaseline in stock as the government is aiming up for full penetration of any communication privacy you might have left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

[Pentax]

Yep, bend on over. 

It's for your own good, cause the govidaddy says so.  Now shut up and get to work to pay those taxes....

[Hamuki]

Let me find that big black dildo from the queens bedroom and shove it up your "bum".
Its time to go in dry!

[bryant.coleman]

Anyone who had concern with his or hers privacy has already left the United Kingdom, and have settled in other English-speaking nations such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

[newflesh]

Best get a plentiful supply of Vaseline in stock as the government is aiming up for full penetration of any communication privacy you might have left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

But we've got to fight terrorism, Johnny Jihad might be hiding under our beds!!

We're already the most surveilled nation on this planet, no doubt the general public will lap it up with barely a wimper. Might as well go the whole hog and install CCTV in every room of our houses...

It will also include more powers for watchdog Ofcom to take action against TV channels that "broadcast extremist content".

They could at least define what extremist content they're referring to, I'd imagine it will cover anything even slightly opposing the goverment.

[Lethn]

Anyone who had concern with his or hers privacy has already left the United Kingdom, and have settled in other English-speaking nations such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

As somebody who can't leave yet because of financial reasons I resent that -_- but yes, anyone with sense is leaving, this is a shit hole of a country and I genuinely believe the population hates anybody who's young and has a brain, especially when you see the kind of comments people from the UK leave on the internet towards them.

Since they don't want me here and want to tax the fuck out of the middle class, I'm going to leave as soon as possible.

[Lauda]

This is horrible. I always suspected the UK to be in a similar situation as the USA. I can't believe their nonsense. This breach of privacy doesn't do anything.
Knowing what couples text each other will definitely help your "terrorist" fight.

Luckily there is ProtonMail for emails and I'm still waiting for a means of encrypted communication for smartphones (since Heml unfortunately got cancelled).

[Buffer Overflow]

This is horrible. I always suspected the UK to be in a similar situation as the USA. I can't believe their nonsense. This breach of privacy doesn't do anything.
Knowing what couples text each other will definitely help your "terrorist" fight.

Luckily there is ProtonMail for emails and I'm still waiting for a means of encrypted communication for smartphones (since Heml unfortunately got cancelled).

Oh, UK is far worse than US. Snowdon told us that ages ago.
I use SMSsecure for my text messages.
https://smssecure.org/
Got my wife setup on it as well. What I text my wife is completely private and should stay that way.
I've tried to encourage others to use it, but I just get the usual brainwashed response "if I ain't doing nothing wrong, I ain't got nothing to hide."
It's very frustrating.

[Lethn]

This is horrible. I always suspected the UK to be in a similar situation as the USA. I can't believe their nonsense. This breach of privacy doesn't do anything.
Knowing what couples text each other will definitely help your "terrorist" fight.

Luckily there is ProtonMail for emails and I'm still waiting for a means of encrypted communication for smartphones (since Heml unfortunately got cancelled).

Oh, UK is far worse than US. Snowdon told us that ages ago.
I use SMSsecure for my text messages.
https://smssecure.org/
Got my wife setup on it as well. What I text my wife is completely private and should stay that way.
I've tried to encourage others to use it, but I just get the usual brainwashed response "if I ain't doing nothing wrong, I ain't got nothing to hide."
It's very frustrating.

People like that just simply don't understand how far this surveillance reaches, it's one thing to put cameras in public streets, it's another to deliberately spy on people for no reason.

[u9y42]

Anyone who had concern with his or hers privacy has already left the United Kingdom, and have settled in other English-speaking nations such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

I wouldn't really hold Australia, or New Zealand (or any Western nation at this point), as much of an example in terms of protection of privacy - they seem to be moving in the same direction: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/26/mandatory-data-retention-becomes-law-as-coalition-and-labor-combine, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-21/new-zealand-passes-spy-bill/4903500. In fact, much of this is just their attempts at legalizing what has been happening behind the scenes for quite some time now.

This is horrible. I always suspected the UK to be in a similar situation as the USA. I can't believe their nonsense. This breach of privacy doesn't do anything.
Knowing what couples text each other will definitely help your "terrorist" fight.

Luckily there is ProtonMail for emails and I'm still waiting for a means of encrypted communication for smartphones (since Heml unfortunately got cancelled).

Oh, UK is far worse than US. Snowdon told us that ages ago.
I use SMSsecure for my text messages.
https://smssecure.org/
Got my wife setup on it as well. What I text my wife is completely private and should stay that way.
I've tried to encourage others to use it, but I just get the usual brainwashed response "if I ain't doing nothing wrong, I ain't got nothing to hide."
It's very frustrating.

Try telling them about the Optic Nerve program: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo.

• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images

[Buffer Overflow]

Anyone who had concern with his or hers privacy has already left the United Kingdom, and have settled in other English-speaking nations such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

I wouldn't really hold Australia, or New Zealand (or any Western nation at this point), as much of an example in terms of protection of privacy - they seem to be moving in the same direction: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/26/mandatory-data-retention-becomes-law-as-coalition-and-labor-combine, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-21/new-zealand-passes-spy-bill/4903500. In fact, much of this is just their attempts at legalizing what has been happening behind the scenes for quite some time now.

This is horrible. I always suspected the UK to be in a similar situation as the USA. I can't believe their nonsense. This breach of privacy doesn't do anything.
Knowing what couples text each other will definitely help your "terrorist" fight.

Luckily there is ProtonMail for emails and I'm still waiting for a means of encrypted communication for smartphones (since Heml unfortunately got cancelled).

Oh, UK is far worse than US. Snowdon told us that ages ago.
I use SMSsecure for my text messages.
https://smssecure.org/
Got my wife setup on it as well. What I text my wife is completely private and should stay that way.
I've tried to encourage others to use it, but I just get the usual brainwashed response "if I ain't doing nothing wrong, I ain't got nothing to hide."
It's very frustrating.

Try telling them about the Optic Nerve program: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo.

Oh I have. I just got laughed at and accused of being paranoid when they noticed I've stuck a tiny square of sticky tape over my phone front facing camera.
I couldn't stand that thing looking at me all the time.

[gentlemand]

Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

Blimey. I wish someone had told me this before I was born here.

It'll be the same as their astonishingly effective attempts to block piratebay. You can circumvent that with one second of, er, duckduckgoing.

The developments regarding evading this will always outpace the lawmakers' ability to tap into it for those who are that committed.

Meanwhile this will be used to jail Mr Average for booking holidays with his kids during term time.

[u9y42]

Oh I have. I just got laughed at and accused of being paranoid when they noticed I've stuck a tiny square of sticky tape over my phone front facing camera.
I couldn't stand that thing looking at me all the time.

Sadly, some people won't ever care about any of this until it directly affects their life, or the lives of those close to them (and even then...). Incidentally, how are your "hacking" skills, and how willing are you to lose friends, in order to show them the sort of things that can be done?

[Trinibits]

Thankyou for sharing this article 

[bryant.coleman]

I wouldn't really hold Australia, or New Zealand (or any Western nation at this point), as much of an example in terms of protection of privacy - they seem to be moving in the same direction

At least the Australians are opposing such measures tooth and nail. The same can't be said about the residents of England. Most of the English are brainwashed beyond any redemption. And anyone who voices against measures such as this one is immediately branded as a rabid neo-nazi, or demonized as an anarchist.

[NUFCrichard]

Best get a plentiful supply of Vaseline in stock as the government is aiming up for full penetration of any communication privacy you might have left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

I don't buy it.  I don't see the UK being nearly as bad as America in breaking the privacy of it's populations.
As with a lot of things, the UK is somewhere between America and Europe, not ideal but not quite NSA levels yet.

I trust the Tories not to go overboard, Labour would have been worse, much worse.

[Buffer Overflow]

Best get a plentiful supply of Vaseline in stock as the government is aiming up for full penetration of any communication privacy you might have left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

I don't buy it.  I don't see the UK being nearly as bad as America in breaking the privacy of it's populations.
As with a lot of things, the UK is somewhere between America and Europe, not ideal but not quite NSA levels yet.

I trust the Tories not to go overboard, Labour would have been worse, much worse.

Well according to Snowden, GCHQ is much worse.
http://rt.com/uk/174172-british-intelligence-lacks-oversight/

[sintax]

Best get a plentiful supply of Vaseline in stock as the government is aiming up for full penetration of any communication privacy you might have left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32896921

I don't buy it.  I don't see the UK being nearly as bad as America in breaking the privacy of it's populations.
As with a lot of things, the UK is somewhere between America and Europe, not ideal but not quite NSA levels yet.

I trust the Tories not to go overboard, Labour would have been worse, much worse.

Trust me blood, the UK has an insane amount of CCTV:

It is estimated that Britain has 20 per cent of cameras globally and that each person in the country is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.

Apologies in advance for quoting from the Daily Fail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205607/Shock-figures-reveal-Britain-CCTV-camera-14-people--China.html

[WhatTheGox]

Anyone who had concern with his or hers privacy has already left the United Kingdom, and have settled in other English-speaking nations such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Most of those remaining are either low-IQ people, or recent immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are unlikely to oppose this measure.

Im stuck in the UK & couldnt leave atm but have thought about it.  The heat of some of those countries you mention would bother me however.

One of my biggest gripes with the UK is the housing market is a total joke, around £200k needs to be spent to get something even half decent in most areas.  This is insane.

[gentlemand]

It seems to be the height of unfashionability to admit to liking one's home country, but there's nowhere I'd rather live other than Britain.

It's compact, beautiful, there ain't no weather, animals (and not many people) who want to kill you, if you have legal grievances you're in with a fighting chance of actually getting them addressed without bribery or having your skull stoved in by the cops or soldiers, the culture is world class, the people are cynical gits, the NHS, as creaky as it is, will do its best to keep you alive for free, stuff actually gets done some of the time.

Yup, it's pretty tired and fucked in its own way. So's everywhere else. I've been to lots of countries and not one did it for me in the same way. I'm really sorry, everyone.