More Plans For UK Internet Snooping Bill Revealed In Queen's Speech

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 9, 2012 @02:14AM from the hidden-in-a-footnote dept.

TheGift73 writes "By far the most controversial bill discussed in the Queen's speech today has to be the 'Draft Communications Bill' which '...will allow the police and intelligence agencies to collect data on communications, like texts and emails, flexible to changes in technology, such as the Internet. This will apply UK wide.' The Queen's Speech has set out the government's legislative plans for the next year." El Reg has the skinny on the CCDP related parts. From their article: "It's unclear if those 'strict safeguards' mean that a warrant, for example, would be needed before spooks could access such data. The rough proposal appeared to only fuzzily indicate that such protection for British citizens would be provided, however."

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Other strange note at the end of her speech... by Covalent · 2012-05-09 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Near the end of the speech the queen also was heard to say "We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia."

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1. Re:Other strange note at the end of her speech... by eln · 2012-05-09 03:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  This all sounds like bad news, but on the bright side there won't be any reduction in the chocolate ration this year.
Whatever you do, don't CC Theresa May by Rogerborg · 2012-05-09 02:42 · Score: 4, Funny

on all your email. In particular, don't use this list of addresses. OK?

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