I’ve been writing, recently, about surveillance abuses in the United States. Just in case my European pals are imagining that this is an NSA problem that mainly concerns America with a few residual casualties in Europe, consider this logical conclusion of an out-of-control surveillance establishment.
The UK House of Lords has issued a report recommending that steps be taken to end on-line anonymity. Forget for a moment how unenforceable and silly this idea is. It represents an end goal—a logical conclusion—for those who believe they have the right to monitor everything everyone does. Just think how much easier it would be if only we could identify any actor on the Internet and monitor what they’re doing. It’s almost as if they hadn’t read the quintessential British warning about such things.