SOCIAL NETWORK SNOOPING IS ‘UK BIG BROTHER GONE BONKERS’.

SOCIAL NETWORK SNOOPING IS ‘UK BIG BROTHER GONE BONKERS’.

MP PLANS FACEBOOK FIGHTBACK AGAINST LABOUR PLANS.
SNP Home Affairs spokesperson, Pete Wishart MP, is set to establish a Facebook group against proposals by the UK Government to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.

Mr Wishart described proposals to monitor and record details of exchanges and profiles from social network sites on a Home Office database as ‘Big Brother gone bonkers’, and the MP plans to start a Facebook fight-back against the proposals.

Mr Wishart said:

“These grossly intrusive plans by the Home Office are another case of Big Brother gone bonkers.

“Not content with their unwanted and expensive ID card plans, the UK government is now set on snooping through social network sites.

“We are talking about sites used by tens of millions of people which contain personal information such as religious and political beliefs, and sexual orientation. These issues are no business of government bureaucrats.

“The UK Government’s appalling record of data security will have alarm bells ringing, and that is in itself an argument against these plans which will do nothing to improve national security.

“I think once people realise what the Home Office has planned, that Ministers will be hit with a Facebook fightback.”