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Tuesday, October 22

Privacy through Market Forces? [SocioPolitico]

It's no surprise that UK ISPs are being stubborn about spying on their customers for the government. At first I thought it was an unexpected outbreak of backbone, but now I am beginning to wonder if it's just straight economics. Storing all that stuff reliably will cost money for hardware and administration. If the government paid them an allowance or paid per kb for the data on demand I expect they would do it. Fortunately there's little chance of the government ponying up the money for that, so for now our privacy is secured by 'market forces'...

posted at 4:16 PM (UK) | |

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