BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-August/029866.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-detection-vans-to-s... BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users Patrick Foster 6 August 2016 8:24am The BBC is to spy on internet users in their homes by deploying a new generation of Wi-Fi detection vans to identify those illicitly watching its programmes online. The Telegraph can disclose that from next month, the BBC vans will fan out across the country capturing information from private Wi-Fi networks in homes to "sniff out" those who have not paid the licence fee. The corporation has been given legal dispensation to use the new technology, which is typically only available to crime-fighting agencies, to enforce the new requirement that people watching BBC programmes via the iPlayer must have a TV licence. The disclosure will lead to fears about invasion of privacy and follows years of concern over the heavy-handed approach of the BBC towards those suspected of not paying the licence fee. However, the BBC insists that its inspectors will not be able to spy on other internet browsing habits of viewers. .....
On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:08:51AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
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BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users
So far they bought license to sniff. Next step will be a license to arrest alleged TV pirates.
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BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users Patrick Foster 6 August 2016 8:24am
The BBC is to spy on internet users in their homes by deploying a new generation of Wi-Fi detection vans to identify those illicitly watching its programmes online. Non-British people might not know that for 50+ years, individuals owning televisions have been required to pay a tax.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
"In the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, any household watching or recording live television transmissions as they are being broadcast (terrestrial, satellite, cable, or internet) is required to hold atelevision licence. Businesses, hospitals, schools and a range of other organisations are also required to hold television licences to watch and record live TV broadcasts.[1] Since 1 April 2010 the annual licence fee has been £145.50 for colour and £49.00 for black and white.[2][3][4] Income from the licence is primarily used to fund the television, radio and online services of the BBC. The total income from licence fees was £3.735 billion in 2014–15[5] of which £613.4 million or 16.4% was provided by the Government through concessions for those over the age of 75. Thus, the licence fee made up the bulk of the BBC's total income of £4.805 billion in 2014–2015." No doubt the British people have developed ever-more sophisticated ways to evade those taxes! Jim Bell
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