proposed expansion of UK Investigatory Powers Act

mirimir · May 5, 2017

The UK government is planning to push greater surveillance powers that would force internet providers to monitor communications in near-realtime and install backdoor equipment to break encryption, according to a leaked document.
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-document-reveals-uk-plans-for-wider-internet-surveillance/

deBoetie · May 5, 2017

My guess is that this is specifically intended for VPN providers rather than ISP. Quite how that's going to work extra-jurisdiction is anyone's guess, particularly for EU providers.

There's also a rather strange section applying to the postal system, it may be that they're looking for digital media being sent that way.

Stefan Froberg · May 5, 2017

And I tought that V for Vendetta was only fiction ...

Dermot7 · Mar 11, 2021

Two internet providers are tracking and collecting the websites visited by their customers as part of a secretive Home Office trial, designed to work out if a national bulk surveillance system would be useful for national security and law enforcement.

Details about the data collection experiment are limited, emerging via an obscure regulatory disclosure and a report in Wired, prompting campaigners to warn of a lack of transparency over data being “hoovered up into a surveillance net”.

Under the two trials, the Home Office is working with the National Crime Agency to harvest “internet connection records (ICRs)” – information about which websites a customer visited, when they did so and how much data they downloaded.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rs-tracking-sites-we-visit-in-secretive-trial

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