Britfag government has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill AKA Snooper's Charter

britfag government has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill AKA Snooper's Charter

how fucked are we?

> Police can access our 'Internet Connection Records' - a database of our online activity in the last 12 months
>The new "Request Filter" will turn all phone records, mobile phone location data and ICRs (internet connection records) into a vast, population-wide police database. This data can be analysed without a warrant.
>bill can force phone companies/ISPs to push compromised updates/reveal your usage

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Stop looking up cartoon CP and you'll be fine.

>Theresa May wants to see your internet history, so we thought it was only fair to ask for hers

>The Home Office is keeping Ms May's list of visited websites a secret

>The Home Office has refused to make Theresa May’s internet browsing history public under freedom of information rules, arguing that a request to do so is “vexatious”.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-wants-to-see-your-internet-history-so-we-thought-it-was-only-fair-to-ask-for-hers-a6785591.html

Now has never been a better time to use a VPN.

brits should stay on their island

>the smell of purple is wingnut

This is what the conservatives wanted. This is post-berxit Britain get used to it

>This is post-berxit Britain get used to it

This has nothing to do with Brexit you remoaning retard. This policy was floated well before the re-election of Cameron.

is there such a thing as a free VPN or am i just handing my data over to be sold?

proper fucked tommy

The number 1 rule of anything: If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold.

This passed on much the same sentiment
>Muh terrorism!!
Britain has never seen lower rates of terrorism than it does today and yet people still worry. At this point, all the IRA needs to do is kick back and watch Britain devolve into the United Kingdom of England and Wales.

Is that because it is her internet history? Or because it is a random asking?

They're also changing how they define "human rights".

i can understand that especially with VPNs but aren't some services just looking to get you hooked and buy premium? i torrent only occasionally so wouldn't need the speeds premium plans offer

>Is that because it is her internet history? Or because it is a random asking?

It shouldn't matter. There was a freedom of information request for her browsing history using any browser on a government computer. The request was fobbed off by saying it would be annoyingly far-reaching and would amount to an unnecessary fishing expedition -- the same thing you can argue is being foisted on the public.

Total double-standards.

Ask yourself, would a VPN that offers both free and paid services sell my data for more money? The answer is yes.

They don't offer the free service as incentive, they offer it as free revenue.

>This data can be analysed without a warrant.

Yall fucked.
What about encrypted traffic?

IIRC you can be jailed for running a blog with HTTPS there.

does the UK just not have a court system or what? I just don't recall a UK court ever rebuffing a government action, like, ever

>inb4 that brexit shit that will die on appeal

Privacy for me, total exposure for thee.

Why hasn't the UK grown a pair and started filling royal ditches?

Jesus Christ Britbongs, where did it all go so wrong? America isn't good but at least it's not THAT bad.

Stand the fuck up for yourself.

>britbongs

I campaigned against this. (This is not advice. This is uncharted waters and new primary legislation. Seek individual legal advice before taking action.)

Tip: Almost all of it was already happening for decades: sometimes illegally, but nothing really happens when HM Government break one of their own laws in practice; sometimes under dubious interpretations of older laws like the Telecommunications Act from the 1980s. In some ways it adds safeguards and tightens rules, but only insofar as it legitimises pre-existing practice: definitely not a win for a free society. It may well make some practices like mass surveillance, targeted hacking, and even mass hacking commoner, and able to be used by/for law enforcement, not just intelligence.

One exception is the "capability maintenance" order, aka the backdoor order. However on the text of the Bill, that only applies to network operators ("communication service providers"). They cannot (on the text of the Bill, and reminding you specifically that this is as yet untested) legally serve such an order, nor can it be effective, on software authors, hardware manufacturers, or anyone else. This came up in the debates (particularly re Free Software) and I am now permitted to disclose the advice I (not you!) received, now that the bill is earmarked for Royal Assent and is too late to amend.

Put another way: if I'm not running a server, they can't (on the text) make me backdoor my software.

What a stupid law. Corrupt government officials are going to immediately start stealing and plagiarizing other people's work, do everything through TOR from now on.

Tor is a massive red flag, you're better off not using it. I'll get called a shill but there has been plenty of stuff leaked that tor users get extra attention

>monarchy
>freedom
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That's why more people should use tor. You know why they flag tor users? Because it works, and they fucking hate that.
The more people they can get not using tor the easier their job becomes.

Use tor when you don't need to,

You britbongs really need to do something about that.
Or get the hell out of the EU already, so you dont give the EU any more bad ideas.

wat

Even the botnets Google, Microsoft and Facebook are against this.

Just buy a VPN m8. Like they're offering it for exceptionally cheap these days. Skip out on ~3 mcdonalds meals and there you have a VPN for a year.

>brits
cuck paradise rules don't apply to me

>american government literally tells manufacturers to put ways for them to get in
>american companies agree and go with it
>but the brits are the ones who are fucked because someone's writing things down

Hypocrites trying to look good. They're still in the NSA's pocket. And I bet you they wont stop tracking and recording you.

Did you change your DNS to freedns.zone/en/ brits?

>This data can be analysed without a warrant
This is some 1984-tier bullshit.

Nah, nothing with top hardware backdoors.

Compromised software and networks can be worked around.

But if your hardware or OS is compromised at a fundamental level, then you might as well not even bother.

>tfw EU is the biggest organization actually protecting your internet freedoms
>people hate it because it says no when their government who signed up tries to do something stupid or fuck someone over
>muh socialism

The EU literally pays people to go on to the net and spread disinfo.

They might not be spying but they're all too happy to manipulate the web in other ways.

Okay fuck Corbyn for not blocking this. But he is a communist so he probably supports it on principle

>They might not be spying
What magical fantasy realm are you from? They're fucking spying, and they're probably just better at not getting caught.

Thing is, none of that information is admissible in court. The NSA isn't public about their domestic surveillance because it's not exactly legal to have backdoors and wiretaps. All they can do legally is mine data.

>The EU literally pays people to go on to the net and spread disinfo.
You mean they pay people to inform people about how EU works? Adding to the web content has never been a crime. Ads are also often spreading what you would consider misinfo. Politics also have their own promotional teams. People spread misinfo on web for free, but most people ignore it because it's aligned with their views.

EU has always been one of the bigger friends of freedom from copyrights.

could you just cite an anonymous source and make the information actionable? its not like the NSA is open to fucking external audits.

Isn't that like following someone until they do something wrong, then using that as a reason to continue following them because now you have to admit it.

I mean, it's not like that thing they got from you a year before they were "authorised" to follow you will be thrown out.

>0.13 euroshekles has been added to your account

I do it for free :^)

>its not like the NSA is open to fucking external audits
It's been proven in the courts that they are vulnerable to FOIA requests.

Law enforcement has always, and will always go to illegal lengths to further their suspicions. Sure this will give them viable leads. However, none of the 'evidence' can be submitted to the courts. It also cannot be used to obtain a warrant.