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  Joe 7 years ago

  I think you're right. Education is the only answer. This isn't necessarily ignorance either as they are trying to solve a different problem to what privacy advocates are. I think if my whole job/goal was to protect the country from terrorism or paedophilia I may be thinking along the same lines. It's a crappy situation to be in. I think the fear of terrorism has won as we are willing to surrender our freedom to try and stop them, which lack of freedom is what they want.

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  @Joe We must distinguish between good user practices for individuals and sweeping policies that you cannot opt out of. If you take the Linux voice guys (now @ Linux magazine) they're way too quick to blame ignorance on the part of politicians. It doesn't really matter IMO, since that "ignorance" builds an antisocial environment. We who know must protest as well as educate.

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  Joe 7 years ago

  You're right it does feel very insignificant. The problem is however that unless you are keeping your eye on this you wouldn't even know it was going through. The BBC has had 0 coverage, some news papers have done a good job on showing people how to setup VPNs and the like but it just seems very hush hush to the general population.

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  I know most signature campaigns feel insignificant, but I've participated in several on Avaaz that actually made a difference.
  
  In the case of the UK I feel that it's too late for the current regime. It along with most western governments already demonstrate daily that citizen privacy is not something you can expect. Liberalism has been discarded for conservative protectionism.

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