Article 237T1 The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history

The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history

by
Cory Doctorow
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With the passage of the Snoopers Charter earlier this month, the UK has become the most-surveilled "democratic" state in the world, where service providers are required to retain at least a year's worth of their customers' browsing history and make it searchable, without a warrant, to a variety of agencies -- and no records are kept of these searches, making it virtually impossible to detect petty vendetta-settling, stalking, or systemic abuses (including selling access to criminals, foreign governments, and institutionalised racism). (more")

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