The BBC has a story about government plant to introduce a new law to allow real-time snooping of British Internet users' activity.
The law would demand a very minimal level of judicial oversight (a judge appointed by the Prime Minister) and the approval of politicians (secretaries of state) so the protection against politically-motivated abuse is effectively nil.
Furthermore, the law will effectively require that backdoors be built into encryption protocols to permit the reading of data on demand.
The news has not been widely publicised by the government, and most people are occupied with Brexit at the moment, so it has not been very well noticed.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday May 07 2017, @01:45PM
People will vote for whatever the Television tells them to or their Facebook streams hypnotize them into. Need to solve that problem before democracy can have a revival.