Investigatory Powers Act goes into force, putting UK citizens under intense new spying regime

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: January 2, 2017 at 1:47:40 PM EST
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Investigatory Powers Act goes into force, putting UK citizens under intense new spying regime
> Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
>
> Investigatory Powers Act goes into force, putting UK citizens under intense new spying regime
> From the end of 2016, every British citizen is living under spying powers that have been deemed 'world-leading – but 
> only as a beacon for despots everywhere’
> By Andrew Griffin
> Dec 31 2016
> <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/investigatory-powers-act-bill-snoopers-charter-spying-law-powers-theresa-may-a7503616.html>
>
> The UK's Investigatory Powers Act is now in effect, placing Britain under some of the widest-ranging spying powers 
> ever seen.
>
> The law – passed last month but going into effect on 30 December – is intended as an update to Britain's often 
> unwieldy surveillance legislation. But it also includes a large set of new powers – including the ability to collect 
> the browsing records of everyone in the country and have them read by authorities as diverse as the Food Standards 
> Agency and the Department for Work and Pensions.
>
> Most of the central parts of the act are now in force. That includes new powers to gather and retain data on 
> citizens, and new ways to force technology companies and others to hand over the data that they have about people to 
> intelligence agencies.
>
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>
> Many of the most invasive powers in the bill haven't yet gone into force. That includes, for instance, the collection 
> of those Internet Connection Records, which has been postponed until the government and internet companies have 
> worked out how they can collect such information safely.
>
> The government has argued that the powers introduced in the bill are necessary to allow intelligence agencies and 
> police to stop modern crime and prosecute the people involved in it.
>
> But Bella Sankey, Amnesty’s policy director, said that it was a "sad day" when the bill passed into law last month.
>
> “The Home Secretary is right that the Government has a duty to protect us, but these measures won’t do the job," she 
> said then. "Instead they open every detail of every citizen’s online life up to state eyes, drowning the authorities 
> in data and putting innocent people’s personal information at massive risk.
>
> "This new law is world-leading – but only as a beacon for despots everywhere. The campaign for a surveillance law fit 
> for the digital age continues, and must now move to the courts.”
>
> [snip]
>
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