What was once a careful handover has become a frantic “dump and dash”—a ritual of negligence. The thud of a parcel hitting the ground on the other side of your fence, the sight of packages left exposed to the elements, and in a grim display of apathy, parcels abandoned in wheelie bins. The sight of a “Fragile” sticker on a package crumpled in a puddle is no longer shocking; it’s an expected outcome. This is a systemic issue, not a series of isolated incidents.
The danger of the “nothing to hide” myth has been amplified in the age of data. With the sheer volume of personal data collected by companies and governments, even seemingly innocuous information can become dangerous when aggregated.
The government’s promise is simple—to build a safer internet. Yet, a closer look at the proposed implementation reveals a classic case of legislative overreach and profound naivety. Instead of delivering genuine security, this legislation may be laying a trap for the public, a Trojan horse filled with far greater dangers than it purports to solve
