Archive for March 25th, 2009

Big brother’s watching…

Posted in Privacy on March 25th, 2009 by Daniel Keyes – Be the first to comment

At least, he’s got plans for our friends in Britain.

LONDON — Social networking websites like Facebook could be forced to pass on details of users’ friends and contacts under British government proposals to fight terrorism.

Millions of Britons use sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace to chat with friends, but ministers are concerned the rapidly evolving technology could be exploited by extremists.

Critics have attacked the plans as more evidence of big government intruding into people’s lives.