http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...p-surveillance
Quote:
"Governments must not use cybersecurity as an excuse for censorship or to deny people their opportunities that the internet represents".
So said David Cameron in 2011, criticising internet censorship and monitoring carried out by other countries around the world.
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Lol, yet in 2013 he is introducing exactly the same in the UK himself. What a hypocrite!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23452097
http://www.zdnet.com/huawei-privacy-...on-7000018662/
It seems that the technology that will be used to filter the Internet will be provided by Chinese corporation Huawei, similar technology (if not the same) to the one that powers "the Great Firewall of China" . It's also same company that the US government accuses of spying and recommends to not use for strategical telecommunication purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Security_concerns
It sounds like China could possibly use this to spy for various purposes like business information, technology patents etc.
I guess probably all connections would be routed through this technology (no matter if the filtering is opted out or not) which means slower connections, errors in connections and surveillance.