UK’s Snooper’s Charter Hands Over Access To User Data To Several Non-Law Enforcement Agencies

‘The UK’s “Snooper’s Charter” was already terrible. The draft bill, finally released earlier this month, confirmed the UK government would be mandating encryption backdoors and requiring the retention of citizens’ web browsing history. On top of that, the bill confirmed dragnet surveillance by UK agencies was already in place (unbeknownst to its “oversight”) and, in fact, is looking to legalize the snooping after the fact.

The Investigatory Powers Act, as can be inferred by its name, would obviously allow any number of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the data and communications retained by ISPs. But it’s not just GCHQ, M16 and various police forces being granted access to UK internet users’ web browsing history. As Joseph Cox at Motherboard points out, it’s also several agencies with seemingly no need for additional access to communications data.’

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