UK police to lose phone and web data search authorisation powers
by Alan Travis Home affairs editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#39DTJ)
Change is one of several to snooper's charter law proposed by ministers in attempt to comply with European court ruling
Senior police officers are to lose the power to self-authorise access to personal phone and web browsing records under a series of late changes to the snooper's charter law proposed by ministers in an attempt to comply with a European court ruling on Britain's mass surveillance powers.
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