[HN Gopher] UK PM urged to enact 'David's law' to end online ano...
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       UK PM urged to enact 'David's law' to end online anonymity after
       Amess's death
        
       Author : intunderflow
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-10-18 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | intunderflow wrote:
       | Mods: Title from article was too long to fit, feel free to adjust
       | as you see appropriate
        
       | stuaxo wrote:
       | What a surprise that the solution is the thing they've been
       | trying to do for a while already.
        
       | BitwiseFool wrote:
       | What is it about Commonwealth governments - the U.K. in
       | particular - that makes them so extremely hostile towards
       | privacy? There is always some push to monitor all [X], require
       | registration to do [Y], or outlaw [Z] in the name of safety. Is
       | there some cultural aspect to this that I as an American just
       | don't grok? Yes, I know our government tries this B.S. too, but
       | not nearly as eagerly and to the same degree.
        
         | pasabagi wrote:
         | I don't know if they are so much more hostile towards privacy -
         | I moved from the UK to Germany, and while overt data collection
         | is much more limited here, the tendency is still there for
         | government agencies (especially the police) to collect every
         | bit of data they can, and never delete it.
         | 
         | The UK has the disadvantage that there's no constitution and a
         | weak court system, so there's no opposition other than pure
         | political opposition. That makes anti-privacy laws pretty easy
         | to pass, since they tend to be generally popular amongst
         | voters.
         | 
         | Ultimately though, any country where big tech is allowed to
         | operate has essentially unlimited access to the private lives
         | of their citizens, through subpoenas. Until that particular
         | barn door is closed, the UK's panoply of CCTV cameras vs
         | Germany's proudly blanked-out google streetviews are much of a
         | muchness.
        
           | codeduck wrote:
           | What? Of course the UK has a constitution. It is simply not
           | codified into a single document.
        
           | NikolaeVarius wrote:
           | https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-
           | com...
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           | Do you really think the entire system has no set of written
           | rules?
        
       | zepto wrote:
       | How is there even a connection between this murder and online
       | anonymity?
       | 
       | I thought they had arrested the suspect already.
        
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