UK taxpayers should foot £2bn or more to adopt Snoopers' Charter, says Inquiry

Parliamentary committee says bill would otherwise undermine the tech sector

IPB The first Parliamentary report into the UK's draft Investigatory Powers Bill, commonly referred to as the "Snoopers' Charter", says it has great potential to damage the nation's technology sector and the public should therefore pick up the tab for the 2bn (US$2.85bn) or so it will require to implement the data-harvesting legislation."