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, @08:42PM
This is all great information.
The problem is that only the intelligent and the people that care will take these steps, and even have alternate partitions for the concerns you cited.
The law will most heavily fall upon those that have no defenses, much like how cattle have been domesticated and are readily culled from the herd as needed to provide food and luxury goods to others.