I have created the following email
signature, which will be added to each and every email that I send. I
see this as a completely responsible act, one which does not break the
law, but none-the-less an act of defiance, an act of rebellion against
those who would take away my right to privacy, supposedly guaranteed by
the European Charter of Human Rights, one which I hope will make those
who draft such inept laws pay attention.
The
following is a disclaimer and a protest at the collection, retention
and sharing of my personal mail by the morally bankrupt state.
By
adding a string of key words, it will guarantee that each and every
mail that I send will now need to be manually viewed as it is picked up
by the auto scan software. If every person in the UK does exactly the
same, then the entire system will quickly become so unmanageable, so
unwieldy that it will become unworkable.
Key words, bomb,
assassinate, president, brown, Osama, Obama, Sargozy, Merkel,
government, target, location, rocket, grenade, al-Qaeda, Pakistan,
India, Afghanistan, UK, America, guns, jets, bombs, machine-gun,
terrorists, MP's, pigs, troughs, France, Germany, Italy, nuclear, Korea.
It
is time to stop meekly accepting everything that the government throws
at us. It is time to stop listening to lily livered politicians who say
this is OK, because it really is NOT OK. It is time to stop listening
to the apologist organisations or committees who will accept this type
of data collection with a rider of wanting a little more protection for
the data.
I refuse to be intimidated by my own Government. It is time to make this kind of data collection unworkable.
Now Government, make me stop !!
p.s.
My car is perfectly serviced, I never go walking in the woods alone,
and I have no intention of doing anything stupid. (for the record). I
have also checked the wording of my ISP agreement, which does not
include any reference to the use of keywords.