Protecting Your Privacy Online - Surf Securely Online

I happen to think that protecting your privacy online should not really be necessary, but unfortunately when you have legislation like the European Directive (Directive 2006/24/EC), which states that all ISPs should access all the websites, E-mail visited for two years I am afraid it is necessary. I mean what is the justification for the storage of this data beyond the need for governments to spy on their citizens' every move on the pretext of stopping those who do a little wrong online.

The British government wants to go much further and store all this information into a central database that is available to certain agencies. So I trust my government to store and check this information - not a chance! Do not worry about countries around the world are actively spy on their residents every move online and in some ways European nations are at least being upfront about it.

So why did not I think I should be to protect my privacy online?

To begin with I will not be monitored or tracked on-line by my government especially incompetent. Certainly do not buy this 'well if you have nothing to hide' argument - that old excuse of violation of peoples privacy so that a few bad people can be captured. Because ordinary people can be tracked and monitored on odd that the criminal will be caught? Sure would be nice to take a little more pedophiles, but it is worth eroding privacy and freedom of all people for this?

The second point is that who else is trying to access this information - and let me tell you a lot of people do, hackers, identity thieves, Internet scammers and more. The vast majority of your internet activities are completely clear and visible for wiretapping - the majority is passed in the clear logs and ISP site ever single visit. Do you know who has access to the logs from the Internet to your ISP?

The simple fact is that when we allow our privacy to be eroded in this way all our information becomes less secure, including all our personal data. There is a worrying trend in this invasion of our privacy online and offline, we should welcome this. Who want to protect our privacy we are in a sense trying to hide something. Wanting to protect your privacy does not mean you're a criminal - should Mr. Jones at No. 37, happily married for 30 years be made to tell everyone that he likes looking at pictures of women (or men) in lingerie, which has activity is that Mrs. Smith has missed the last week of cleanliness in a poker game on Tuesday?

Our freedom and privacy is important but is rapidly eroded, if there are scam sites and communities on the Internet by all means pursue them, but not to monitor the habits of entire populations in case we happen to be one of them. Identity thieves have targeted for this data and be kept and controlled by a 17 year old student at the local ISP does not exactly fill me with joy, but may still be safer to let our government cares. If you want to protect their privacy online, then take a look at my page below - nobody knows where to sail and what I do online besides me .......