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UK Snooper's Charter To Extend Police Access To Phone and Internet Data (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this news from the Guardian about a proposed expansion of UK government agencies' power to eavesdrop under the so-called "snooper's charter": Powers for the police to access everyone's web browsing histories and to hack into their phones are to be expanded under the latest version of the snooper's charter legislation. The extension of police powers contained in the investigatory powers bill published on Tuesday indicates the determination of the home secretary, Theresa May, to get her controversial legislation on to the statute book by the end of this year in spite of sweeping criticisms by three separate parliamentary committees in the past month. The bill is designed to provide the first comprehensive legal framework for state surveillance powers anywhere in the world. It has been developed in response to the disclosure of state mass surveillance programmes by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. The government hopes it will win the backing of MPs by the summer and by the House of Lords this autumn.
Specifically we need the sort of kryptonite that kills this dead - end to end encryption on unhackable devices that will wipe themselves. For calling, for email, for texts - with only metadata, they won't go nearly as far.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So their answer to state mass surveillance programmes is more state mass surveillance programmes?
People: Hey guys, we're sinking!
Government: Let's pump more water into the boat!
give the police the powers enjoyed by the police in a police state.
It seems strange to me that they do not realize that in asking for these powers (well taking these powers and subsequently making any illegal actions retrospectively legal) they mark themselves as exactly the people and organizations that should not in any circumstances be given these powers.
Shameful really.
Given the beatings it has received from the parliamentary comities, and how little it has actually changed since, it may not. Even if it does not it needs a super-majority if the lords take a dislike to like it, which they may well.
I wish it the worst of luck.
There's absolutely no way this power could possibly be abused, say by politicians looking to dig up dirt on their opponents during elections...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Once again I have to ask, What is going on in the UK? Or should we start calling it "Airstrip One"?
Proverbs 21:19
The politicians act on lobbying from the security services, who have American funding, from the NSA without the consent or knowledge of the American people either
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden
bought and sold by treasonous toads.
The UK has been reading letters and mail for many generations. Thats why the US has that "persons, houses, papers, and effects" protection. :) A new generation of security officials just expects the world to be as connected as they are and stay connected 24/7 :)
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... really started to dig deeper into mail and communications on a national scale with collect it all, read it all funding and staffing levels.
HOW the home office warrant was also used a lot. A network of Security Liaison Officers, Defence security officers got used to keep track of all political any other emerging issues. The commercial Intelsat phone network was split to ensure every phone call could be obtained. Domestic calls got the same bulk collection.
Every domestic call and all phone calls in and out of Ireland got the same level of interest. The US Irish connections needed a lot of work to block US support for Ireland.
The constant flow of US mil grade supplies to Ireland had to be and was stopped in the 1980's. As Ireland entered a new relationship, the UK had to keep some very powerful laws in place to ensure large numbers of people with skill sets could watched.
Later technology surrounding computer entry and phone voice prints got a vast domestic upgrade in both funding and staff. The UK was following the US down the collect it all domestic use of signals intelligence in open courts. eg TEMPORA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The result in 2016 is the now public announcement that domestic signals collect it all is policy, with the ability to use all the results in courts.
Every person of interest is now expected to use a phone, carry a powered cell phone everywhere, own a networked computer at home and thats all the new bespoke contractor systems can collect from.
A big change from the real experts that could follow anyone around Ireland and the UK and then turn actual informants. The real covert, clandestine side has been defunded for the big, simple US style instant "digital" election cycle security wins in open court.
The idea that anyone interesting will not use any electronic devices has not seemed to have been factored in any way
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
It's hard to tell why exactly this has happened under successive governments, particularly as this one clawed back some of the totalitarianism of the last one.
We know that Theresa May's is advised by Stasi spook, Charles Farr, as well as his fiance. Farr wrote this legislation about 8 years ago. This is his 5th attempt to get it passed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
I also know that MI5 are strongly anti-privacy, through somebody who did contract work for them.