Yesterday, the government presented plans to Parliament for a wide range of powers that will permit security agencies to view the activities of everyone in the UK who goes online. Known as the Investigatory Powers Bill, if it becomes law next year it will enable the security services to conduct a wide range of activities - including seeing the names of every website people have visited, and the power to hack devices and run operations to capture large amounts of data as it transits the … [Read more...] about Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims
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The surveillance structure that underpins us all
Here's another paragraph to add to the debate about privacy, surveillance, spying and the whole gamut of who does what, how and why with digital information that you think is yours and private but in reality is in the spies' domain. Last night, Channel 4 News broadcast a 10-minute report in its evening news show that revealed how Cable & Wireless, one of the UK's largest communications firms, had a leading role in creating the surveillance system exposed by Edward Snowden in which … [Read more...] about The surveillance structure that underpins us all