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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @11:32AM
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
The Brits have never gotten basic human rights.
Not really (from Liberty [liberty-human-rights.org.uk]'s web site):
The current bunch of fascists [conservatives.com] in government want to scrap that and "replace" it with a British Bill of Rights.
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.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:53PM
I missed out a link there. The second blockquote is from the Independent [independent.co.uk].
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].