48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory (zerohedge.com)

schwit1 quotes a report from Zero Hedge on Great Britain's newly-enacted "snoopers' charter": For those who missed our original reports, here is the new law in a nutshell: it requires telecom companies to keep records of all users' web activity for a year, creating databases of personal information that the firms worry could be vulnerable to leaks and hackers. Civil liberties groups say the law establishes mass surveillance of British citizens, following innocent internet users from the office to the living room and the bedroom. They are right. Which government agencies have access to the internet history of any British citizen? Here is the answer courtesy of blogger Chris Yuo, who has compiled the list
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Metropolitan police force
City of London police force
Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
Police Service of Scotland
Police Service of Northern Ireland
British Transport Police
Ministry of Defence Police
Royal Navy Police
Royal Military Police
Royal Air Force Police
Security Service
Secret Intelligence Service
GCHQ
Ministry of Defence
Department of Health
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
National Crime Agency
HM Revenue & Customs
Department for Transport
Department for Work and Pensions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
Competition and Markets Authority
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
Financial Conduct Authority
Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Scotland
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
Information Commissioner
NHS Business Services Authority
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
Office of Communications
Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Serious Fraud Office
Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust

Comments

Group "The Police" to reduce the Sting

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not saying there's not an issue, just that the headline "48" is a bit over-the-top.
Of those "48" separate organizations, the following 12 are really the same, or possibly two organizations, civil and military police:
Metropolitan police force
City of London police force
Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
Police Service of Scotland
Police Service of Northern Ireland
British Transport Police
Ministry of Defence Police
Royal Navy Police
Royal Military Police
Royal Air Force Police
National Crime Agency

Then there are the spooks (GCHQ etc), and lets face it, they'll have access whatever the law says.

What's even more worrying is the ongoing creep of police powers into non-security organizations:
Government departments (Health, Home Office, Transport, Work & Pensions, Economy etc.)
HM Revenue & Customs
The NHS, fire & ambulance services

and the really weird ones:
Food Standards Agency
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Information Commissioner
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation

I'm surprised the council litter and parking wardens aren't in there :-(

Re:Group "The Police" to reduce the Sting

[AmiMoJo]

City of London police force

Those guys are not normal police though, they are a semi-private force that serves big businesses based in the City of London. These days their main concern seems to be shutting down web sites that businesses don't like, for example.

The other issue with the long list of police forces is that it is very doubtful that any of them have proper safeguards in place. The current scheme is that they have to ask one of their own people if it's okay, and they said "yes" at least half a million times a year before this legislation came in.

Government departments (Health, Home Office, Transport, Work & Pensions, Economy etc.)
HM Revenue & Customs
The NHS, fire & ambulance services
Food Standards Agency
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Information Commissioner
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation

In the name of catching tax dodgers and finding people at imminent risk of suicide. Doubtless most accesses will just be checking up on lovers and selling dirt to newspapers.

Re:Source?

[Cybertect]

Are you incapable of looking it up in the Bill? It's a matter of official public record.

As you have already been told it is in Schedule 4 of the Act (though technically it's still a Bill until it receives Royal Assent

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-public-bill-office/2016-17/compared-bills/Investigatory-Powers-AAC-Tracked-Changes-version.pdf

Schedule 4 begins on page 219, though heaven knows why I'm being so helpful for a sweary AC

Behind the times

[Anonymous Coward]

Australia logs all internet traffic and phone use for two years. Get with it Ukers

Are they going to shaft business like the Chinese?

[ukoda]

The articles I have seen don't mention the legality of VPNs? That would be the first thing I would do on principle. If normal VPNs get blocked then I would move to tunnelling via SSH to a proxy on a server in a free country. That is what I used to do in China. So if VPNs are blocked are they going to block SSH to? To my mind it is impossible for them to truly block users from private Internet activity unless they are prepare to do it at the expense of legal businesses, like they do in China.

Having managed a development team in China for a couple if years I know first hand how big the disadvantage Chinese developers are at because their access to decent sources of information are block. The way the Internet is broken there seriously impacts productivity there. If Britain really wants to know what everyone is doing then the technical steps they will need to take will impact the productivity of British businesses.

It gets tiring watching law makers passing laws with no real understanding of how technology actually works.

UK citizen and want to do something?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sign this: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199

If 118,000 turned up outside Parliament, they'd have a big problem, but our problem is our apathy. The government know this and are taking advantage of our lack of commitment in taking the fight (for privacy!) back to them.

Re:UK citizen and want to do something?

[mrbester]

Protests outside Parliament were banned years ago. Not that any would make the slightest difference; a million people turned up to protest the invasion of Iraq. When that proportion of a country's population travels to the centre of a city to protest and nothing comes of it, what's the point?

Re:Fucking Zerohedge!?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's all listed in the bill itself, http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers.html

Re:Police state

[Plus1Entropy]

He's not talking about "liberals" in general. He means the Liberals, the name of the party that currently has a majority in the Canadian House of Commons, i.e. the Canadian Government.

That being said, I also live in Canada and I'm not sure I agree that they're planning to do that, but who knows.