175 million pounds per year to collect metadata

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The UK government estimates it will cost £175m/year to collect and store metadata. Australia still does not know how much metadata collection will cost or who will pay for it. While many people now use a VPN which can help avoid metadata collection, everyone will have to pay an internet tax in the future to meet the costs of their government tracking their internet usage. Even though collecting this data for VPN users is mostly pointless.

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2015-12-11 16:27
175 million pounds per year to collect UK metadata
pete@pipedot.org
The UK government estimates it will cost £175m/year to collect and store metadata. Australia still does not know how much metadata collection will cost or who will pay for it. While many people now use a VPN which can help avoid metadata collection, everyone will have to pay an internet tax in the future to meet the costs of their government tracking their internet usage. Even though collecting this data for VPN users is mostly pointless.

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While many people now use a VPN which can help avoid metadata collection, everyone will have to pay an internet tax in the future to meet the costs of their government tracking their internet usage, even though collecting this data for VPN users is mostly pointless. "The indiscriminate collection of mass data is going to have a massive cost", says Matthew Hare ofeed&utm_campa ISP Gign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29clear.
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