Snooper's Charter to become law in UK

[Stavros]

The Investigative Powers Act -also known as the 'Snooper's Charter'- has passed through the House of Commons and the House of Lords and will become law by the end of 2016 when it receives the Royal Assent.

The Act has been described by The Guardian as
giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rely-a-whimper

While artstechnica offers this example of the powers the state now has:

Under what we must soon call the Investigatory Powers Act, "communications service providers"—essentially ISPs and telecoms companies—can and doubtless will be required to create Internet Connection Records (ICRs) for all their users, and to store them for a year. The government factsheet on ICRs describes them as follows:

Internet connection records are records captured by the network access provider (e.g. the Internet Service Provider or Wi-Fi operator) of the Internet services with which a uniquely identifiable device (e.g. a laptop or mobile phone) interacts.

It will involve retention of a destination IP address but can also include a service name (e.g. Facebook or Google) or a web address (e.g. www.facebook.com or www.google.com) along with a time/date.
It could never contain a full Web address as under the law these would be defined as content.

The website also goes into the centralised software the govt is developing that will enable it to conduct multiple searches across the data, and the other issues involved.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy...ing-to-happen/

Some of these provisions may be challenged in law, but as it stands this is a victory for Theresa May who introduced this Bill into the House when she was Home Secretary, and is an important step forward for the State which believes it should have some power to monitor internet usage by civilians to combat threats such as terrorism and criminal activity.

[Jericho]

Oh, 'triffic.
Knowing what i jack off to's really going to save the world from terrorism.

What next, our own Gitmo?
They could use Anglesey (Ynys Mon) maybe,...Ang-on-a-mo!





Own up.
Which one of you cunts forgot to salt and burn Thatcher!

[smlewis]

Unfortunately far worse is on the way. The UK "government" is planning to pass new laws that will force ISP's to block all porn sites not implementing age verification. Which means 99% of porn web sites will disappear if you are in the UK. Better download as much porn as you can now !

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/uk_int...ew_uptake_6066

[Stavros]

More details are emerging of the Digital Economy Bill linked above by smlewis -the aim is to block websites in the UK that exhibit 'non-conventional sexual acts' and which will, for example, apply the 'four-finger rule' to content-

The censorship regime has led to bizarre understandings between the producers and regulators, Barnett said. One is the “four-finger rule”, which limits the number of digits that can be inserted into an orifice for sexual stimulation.

More here-
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...et-pornography

[chupapau]

I guess they only could of done that if the leave the EU.... grin...

Make it a routine : every day firebomb their data servers by looking up anything gross or disturbing or sick you can think of. Only 3 minutes a day clicking and surfing for the fun of it makes their data just worth crap.

[sukumvit boy]

We have had the "four finger rule" here in the States for as long as I can remember.
However , with the new administration it is apparently OK to stick your foot in your mouth or your entire head up your ass !

[BJ4TS]

Big Brother will be watching.