UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 16, 2015 @05:34PM from the striking-while-the-iron-is-hot dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Less than three days after the attacks in Paris, UK prime minister David Cameron has suggested that the process of review for the controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill should be accelerated. The controversial proposal, which would require British ISPs to retain a subset of a user's internet history for a year and in effect outlaw zero-knowledge encryption in the UK, was intended for parliamentary review and ratification by the end of 2016, but at the weekend ex-terrorist watchdog Lord Carlile was in the vanguard of demands to speed the bill into law by the end of this year, implicitly criticizing ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for having 'shown terrorists ways to hide their electronic footprints'.

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uk trying desperately to stay relevant by sittingnut · 2015-11-16 18:14 · Score: -1, Troll

why do people even bother about uk? it is a declining society, in debt to others, with ever less share of world gdp, a slave state to usa. as such increasingly irrelevant to world affairs, nobody bothers about netherlands, so why uk?
censorship/surveillance laws that matter are those in china, usa, india, brazil germany, russia, iran etc etc .
who cares if british perverts in government spy on whether rest of the british still engage as usual in national cultural practice of male male sodomy?