UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/11/16/2336228/uk-pm-wants-to-speed-up-controversial-internet-bill-after-paris-attacks
Less than three days after the attacks in Paris, UK
prime minister David Cameron has suggested that the process of
review for the controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
should be accelerated. The controversial proposal, which would
require British ISPs to retain a subset of a user's internet
history for a year and in effect outlaw zero-knowledge
encryption in the UK, was intended for parliamentary review and
ratification by the end of 2016, but at the weekend ex-terrorist
watchdog Lord Carlile was in the vanguard of demands to speed
the bill into law by the end of this year, implicitly
criticizing ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for having
'shown terrorists ways to hide their electronic footprints'.
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Almost like ISIL was a partner in his desired process, the reality of
this making *everyone* more vulnerable be damned.
--Lauren--
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