From: grarpamp <[email protected]> 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-snoop-on-internet-users/
>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
