Yes, sadly it seems that the only option is to go live in some hut in Pacific. Hey, wait a minute… That doesn’t sound too bad.

But really, I agree that it’s extremely frustrating to see this coming and not just being able to stop it in any way. In regards to monitoring, I think a lot of information is supposed to be flushed, when their algorithms have gone thorugh it and found nothing dangerous.

I do wonder how they’re gonna monitor ALL information though. I bet that will cost a good amount of taxpayers money.

The sad thing is that with pretty much all privacy invading measures governments take, most of us probably saw it coming from miles away. This is what scares me the most. You can just see it coming but yet you can’t do shit about it. I’m waiting for the day when you’ll have a mandatory tracking chip implanted in your arm.

Crazy? That’s what they said about monitoring your phonecalls and internet usage as well. For now the only way to escape from this madness seems to get out of the western world and move to a somewhat less developed country where you have a few decades left before the same stuff starts happening there as well. I’m starting to feel really tempted to actually do that.

George Orwell would probably shoot himself in the head if he were alive to see what’s becoming of society these days.

Sad… sad…

Personally, I think it’s sad if we live in a world where all information has be encrypted.

Echelon is also different from this, since this is a law that demands all ISPs to deliver all their information to the government; it’s not some hidden away system just spying on traffic.

Would I want an entire country using encryption? An entire country full of knowledgeable people who want to keep their information absolutely private? Yes, yes I would.

Come on, folks — information collection on a mass scale like this is nothing new. (Remember “Echelon?”) Use encryption — problem solved.

If it were up to me, you would definitely be welcome to vote here!

Seriously though, laws like these are severely restricting the basic rights of citizens in what is supposed to be one of the most open-minded countries in the world.

Now, if I only had the right to vote in Sweden…

Not really sure about Denmark, to be honest. And absolutely, excessive fear and control leads to less freedom, and ultimately a less good world to spend your life in.

RobertDM,

Oh yes.

mdmadph,

I do agree that electronic communications are by default not secure. But, what I oppose here is something as ridiculous as storing all information no matter what, and that this is done by the people we should trust (the government), which now instead just becomes the most mistrusted instance.

And really, while encryption is good, there will never ever happen that you can get an entire country to use it (and would we really want that?).

Don’t trust any line of electronic communication not to be monitored — get yourself a copy of TrueCrypt, and start using it. Get your friends and families to start using it. Sign and encrypt your emails, etc.

Don’t both trying to fight these laws — this is the way things are headed, and you need to start protecting yourself NOW.

I think the main differences here compared to the US is that this is a law that all ISP:s hand over all of their information to the government, not just information that might match any filter criteria.
And this is not done in an eavesdropping manner, like the FBI, but rather in a completely open way that goes right up to the top of the government.