#publisher Metro » Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist, posting letters the way to go in this age of cyber-snooping Comments Feed alternate alternate Metro WordPress.com [tr?id=1522229268091476&ev=PageView&noscript=1] IFRAME: //www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NX8Q6N This site uses cookies. By continuing, your consent is assumed. Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist, posting letters the way to go in this age of cyber-snooping [9g2a8002.jpg?crop=24px%2C31px%2C379px%2C379px&resize=150%2C150� 38;quality=80&strip=all&w=40&h=40] Kate Russell for MetroMonday 10 Jun 2013 11:26 am Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist Boris Johnson: Internet privacy doesn’t exist (Picture: PA) Boris Johnson says it’s come as no surprise to him to discover the internet is a ‘gigantic snooperama’. ‘What on earth did you expect?’ the mayor of London wrote in the Telegraph as a US security services mole revealed Britain’s potential links to a massive cyber-snooping system. Mr Johnson decried the ‘global conspiracy’ to invade our privacy but he said people must be naive to think that the contents of an email remain between the sender and the recipient. It is ‘out there, in the ether, just waiting to be hacked or lost or stolen or accidentally blurted to your enemies’, he said. ‘That is why I have always rather assumed that any email I send should be drafted as if for public consumption,’ added Mr Johnson who recommends we return to the good old fashioned postal system if we value our privacy. ‘All those who want to beat the internet snoops – just get out the old Basildon Bond, suck the end of your biro, assemble your thoughts carefully and do as our grandparents did.’ He said everyone is ‘understandably getting worked up’ about the existence of Prism – a scheme allegedly set up to tap directly into the servers of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and AOL to read the messages of foreigners suspected of terrorism or espionage. But he said he also had sympathy with our security services ‘and their very powerful need to use the internet to catch the bad guys’. He said what we ideally need is a British Google ‘that cracks the freedom vs security conundrum’ and called on computer wizards to create an internet provider ‘that somehow roots out the terrorists and the child molesters, and yet allows the blameless punter to send an email in complete security’. No regrets: 29-year-old Edward Snowden (Picture: Guardian) No regrets: 29-year-old Edward Snowden (Picture: Guardian) The source of the intelligence leaks has come forward to identify himself as a 29-year-old ex-CIA employee. Edward Snowden, 29, told the Guardian, which published the so-called National Security Agency files, from a hotel room in Hong Kong that he had ‘no regrets’ over his decision, although he admits he ‘does not expect to see home again’. Google has denied that is has allowed either the US or Britain to access to its servers through Prism. 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