Sweeping UK spy bill dubbed snoopers charter becomes law

[inanna]

Source: Washington Post

November 26 at 3:23 AM

LONDON — In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger.

After months of wrangling, Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities — from police and spies to food regulators, fire officials and tax inspectors — powers to look at the internet browsing records of everyone in the country.

The law requires telecoms 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.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/sweeping-uk-spy-bill-dubbed-snoopers-charter-becomes-law/2016/11/26/0b1fda2c-b3b0-11e6-bc2d-19b3d759cfe7_story.html

[Grey Lemercier]

1. this is truly horrific, and will further entrench us as a police state, words fail me

[cstanleytech]

2. And what are the internet companies going to do if someone uses something like a VPN with Tor?

[NWCorona]

3. 1984

[christx30]

4. Anyone know of a good

offshore VPN?
This is going to come to the US eventually, if it's not already here and they just haven't told us yet.