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Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

The law forces UK internet providers to store browsing histories -- including domains visited -- for one year, in case of police investigations.

Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy' | ZDNet

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The UK has just passed a massive expansion in surveillance powers, which critics have called "terrifying" and "dangerous".

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The new law, dubbed the "snoopers' charter", was introduced by then-home secretary Theresa May in 2012, and took two attempts to get passed into law following breakdowns in the previous coalition government.

Four years and a general election later -- May is now prime minister -- the bill was finalized and passed on Wednesday by both parliamentary houses.

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Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

interesting article

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Wonder how soon before an even worse law is passed by the Trump administration...

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Yes... "law"...

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Hip hip hurray - NOT :(

Thanks for the headsup.

1 year is not much depending on what you are up to.

I think its more for those terror idiots that do that super bad stuff and hackers that hack into big companies just for the f of it!

Still annoying though. Even for innocents like me.

Idiots are idiots though.
Get get payg internet from some corner store and let the authorities log whatever ever they want coz nothing is registered to you and your address etc.

So I dont really see the f ing point of the dumb law.
Waste of time and money.
Yes some idiots will get caught but they deserve to as they are using their own home internet!

Proper crooks know the score and dont do dumb things like that.

But what do I know anyway, I am just a basic innocent walking around in this messed up world X

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

I'm more concerned with RFID Chips :help:

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

The free world is f*cked with Trump administration.

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Trump has the right sentiments...control who comes in to your country...
a country should be run like a business or it will fail.......

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

They won't store it with all the data, only some logs of activity.

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Has some truth

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Well off to the USA I move! Not a fan of these new snoop laws being introduced in the UK. Not one bit

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

VPN companies must be doing a roaring trade, find one in a country that respects internet freedom to some extent, pay by Bitcoin

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

^^^

Ironically, that VPN is probably from China, I know of one in Hong Kong that is pretty good.

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

Every1 is being watched, this whole world is f*cked. Thanks Snowden for showing us the true color of our government.

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

I run most of my programs like skype, thunderbird and others through AdvOR https://sourceforge.net/projects/advtor/

However, TOR is government funded and some of the major nodes on tor are supposedly owned by government.
Its all just a f'ing mess.

I am glad I got nothing to hide :)

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

There's no need for anyone to defend themselves when talking about internet privacy by saying they have nothing to hide. We've all got "nothing to hide" , but for instance we would not hand over our email password to someone.

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

It's amusing when mexicant's complain about Trump

Re: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
 

they are looking at the sites visited, they do not read emails....or so we are told.

what annoys me is that the people that pass these laws do not think it through, that the bad guys will dodge it anyway...or maybe they do know, and it is all a cover for something else.....