(multimedia) Government proposals to monitor email and web traffic are ‘nigh on impossible to enforce’ and would make Britain like Iran and China, digital expert Trefor Davies has told The Telegraph.
Government plans to access details of every email and website sent in Britain would be an impractical waste of money that would make the UK more like China and Iran, a leading British technology expert has said.
Trefor Davies, Chief Technology Officer at business internet service provider Timico, wrote on telegraph.co.uk that the proposed measures could also drive users underground and make tracking paedophiles and copyright infringers far harder.
“The reality is that it is nigh on impossible to stop people communicating using the internet without being discovered and attempting to develop a system that will do this is not only likely to be wasted money but will be a step towards entering a category of nation currently occupied by the likes of China and Iran”, he said.
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