Friday, 13 November 2015
Members of the British Parliament are currently hunched over calculators trying to figure out what it might cost to store surveillance data if the anti-privacy laws from the recently published Investigatory Powers bill come into force. The proposed legislation will require internet service providers to store records of every user’s browsing activity for 12 months and provide access to them whenever law enforcement and security agencies ask. The BBC notes that the UK government has said it will provide £175 million ($266 million) to ISPs over 10 years to pay for data to be gathered and stored. Will that be…
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