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posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the snoopers-charter-v3 dept.
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The UK government will tomorrow publish draft legislation to regulate the use of encryption and require ISPs to log which websites their customers visit for a year. The government has previously expressed irritation at the idea of some communications being out of government reach. There is an (inevitably toothless) petition.

The silver lining is perhaps that the government still cannot comprehend that not all secure communications involve a communications provider. The government appears to be using the door in the face technique, making the bill as over the top as possible so they can appear to compromise later.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @11:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @11:32AM (#258338)

    The Brits have never gotten basic human rights. Magna Carta, after all, was a statement of landed baron's rights versus the crown and didn't free any serfs. The English Civil War was about religion, not parliamentary authority per se.

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:51PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:51PM (#258505) Journal

    The Brits have never gotten basic human rights.

    Not really (from Liberty [liberty-human-rights.org.uk]'s web site):

    1950 The European Convention on Human Rights was agreed in the aftermath of the Second World War. British lawyers played an instrumental role in the development of the Convention, and the UK signed up in 1951.

    The current bunch of fascists [conservatives.com] in government want to scrap that and "replace" it with a British Bill of Rights.

    The Conservative party has yet to announce what will be in the British Bill of Rights they plan to replace the Human Rights Act with, although it is thought they will make a statement soon. Until then we don't know which specific rights Mr Cameron would scrap, and what he would add.

    Just like before the recent General Election, Irritible Duncan Syndrome [conservatives.com] wouldn't tell us which particular welfare/benefits he would cut in his massive £12 billion programme and suprisingly kicked supporters of his own party squarely in the teeth [telegraph.co.uk].

    But as the right-wing loonies are so frequently heard to rant, "Yooman rights! Yooman rights! I don't need no yooman rights cause I ain't done nothing wrong!" I dare say they're heading for another kicking along with everyone else.