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UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk)
whoever57 writes: The UK government plans to require ISPs and telcoms companies to maintain browsing and email history of UK residents for a period of 12 months and make the data available to police on request without a warrant. "The new powers would allow the police to seize details of the website and searches being made by people they wanted to investigate." Exactly how they expect the ISPs to provide search histories now that most Google searches use SSL isn't explained (and probably not even considered by those proposing the legislation). Similarly with Gmail and other email providers using SMTP TLS and IMAPS, much email is opaque to ISPs. Will this drive more use of VPNs and TOR?
This comes alongside news that UK police used powers granted to them by anti-terrorism laws to seize a journalist's laptop.
about how the US is treating its citizens with privacy.. But you people are writing the book on the matter.
As long as the government is willing to allow the public access to all government emails and phone records also.
Spy on them as they spy on us. Fair is fair.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.