UK Readies Police State Bill to End Internet Privacy
Bill will force Apple to rewrite its iOS from the ground up
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
March 1, 2016
The British government is pushing the Investigatory Powers Bill, or Snoopers’ Charter, that will effectively end internet privacy.
The proposed legislation targets popular chat and message services such as WhatsApp, iMessage and FaceTime, outlaws end-to-end encryption and will force Apple to rewrite its iOS from the ground up to accommodate surveillance by the state. It would also force tech companies to provide backdoors accessible to government.
Additionally, the law requires ISPs to keep records of all internet activity of its customers. The data would be available to the government for a year.
In 2015 the British home secretary Theresa May admitted that a 1983 telecom act permitted bulk retention of data by MI5 and the agency had done so since September 2001.
“The Crown did whatever the Crown felt necessary in the circumstances of the day to secure the state,” said Sir David Omand, the former director of the British surveillance agency GCHQ.
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