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An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following:

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.

Original Submission

1. "regulate the use of encryption" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
2. "require ISPs to log which websites their customers visit for a year" - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/02/theresa-may-faces-fight-over-web-browsing-access
3. "petition" - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106369
4. "the government still cannot comprehend that not all secure communications involve a communications provider." - http://www.revk.uk/2015/11/government-still-think-there-are.html
5. "door in the face technique" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=10438

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