{"id":11427,"date":"2015-11-04T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:46:17","slug":"theresa-may-unveils-uk-surveillance-measures-in-wake-of-snowden-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/theresa-may-unveils-uk-surveillance-measures-in-wake-of-snowden-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen\u2019s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled by Theresa May.<\/p>\n

It includes new powers requiring internet and phone companies to keep \u201cinternet connection records\u201d \u2013 tracking every website visited but not every page \u2013 for a maximum of 12 months but will not require a warrant for the police, security services or other bodies to access the data. Local authorities will be banned from accessing internet records.
\nThe proposed legislation will also introduce a \u201cdouble-lock\u201d on the ministerial approval of interception warrants with a new panel of seven judicial commissioners \u2013 probably retired judges \u2013 given a veto before they can come into force.<\/p>\n

But the details of the bill make clear that this new safeguard for the most intrusive powers to spy on the content of people\u2019s conversations and messages will not apply in \u201curgent cases\u201d \u2013 defined as up to five days \u2013 where judicial approval is not possible.<\/p>\n

The draft investigatory powers bill published on Wednesday by the home secretary aims to provide a \u201ccomprehensive and comprehensible\u201d overhaul of Britain\u2019s fragmented surveillance laws. It comes two-and-a-half years after the disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden of the scale of secret mass surveillance of the global traffic in confidential personal data carried out by Britain\u2019s GCHQ and the US\u2019s National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p>\n

It will replace the current system of three separate commissioners with a senior judge as a single investigatory powers commissioner.<\/p>\n

May told MPs that the introduction of the most controversial power \u2013 the storage of everyone\u2019s internet connection records tracking the websites they have visited, which is banned as too intrusive in the US and every European country including Britain \u2013 was \u201csimply the modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her recommendations were broadly welcomed by the shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, but received a more cautious welcome from the former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis, the former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n

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New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen\u2019s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled by Theresa May. It includes new powers requiring internet and phone companies to keep \u201cinternet connection records\u201d \u2013 tracking every website visited but not every page \u2013 for a maximum of 12 months but will not require a warrant for the police, security services or other bodies to access the data. Local authorities will be banned from accessing internet records. The proposed legislation will also introduce a \u201cdouble-lock\u201d on the ministerial approval of interception warrants with a new panel of seven judicial commissioners \u2013 probably retired judges \u2013 given a veto before they can come into force. But the details of the bill make clear that this new safeguard for the most intrusive powers to spy on the content of people\u2019s conversations and messages will not apply in \u201curgent cases\u201d \u2013 defined as up to five days \u2013 where judicial approval is not possible. The draft investigatory powers bill published on Wednesday by the home secretary aims to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[65,907,1572,1678,1780,1853],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-65","tag-internet","tag-snowden","tag-surveillance","tag-theresa-may","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}