UK IP Bill has been approved!

• Guest 1912

  • Registered: 11 Nov 2016
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  18 November 2016     15:34320642
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  It's now official. The House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, allowing the government to monitor and spy on its population.
  
  We've already mentioned Investigatory Powers Bill in our previous blog posts. The bill forces telecom companies and ISPs to record meta-data of their users for up to a year.
  
  It also allows the Government to force companies to hack into or break things they've sold, so the users could be spied on. Furthermore, it disallows the use of encryption in devices being sold and used in the UK.
  
  The IPBill was already passed by the House of Commons by a clear majority in June of this year. The MPs voted overwhelmingly in its favor, with final result being 444 to 69.
  
  Pro-privacy groups and advocates have campaigned against the legislation since then, dubbing it Snooper's Charter 2.0 in reference to the original attempt to pass the law that was thwarted by the Conservative government's former coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
  
  As of now, the bill has been forwarded to the Queen of the UK and will immediately become a law once it is approved. Pro-privacy groups, including the Open Rights Group, said that they intend to continue fighting the law.
  
  reference: https://www.purevpn.com/blog/protect-yourself-from-the-ip-bill/
• Reginald Barrington

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  18 November 2016     16:04320644
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  No problem from my perspective, though that suggests that Apple would no longer be able to sell Iphones and the government would able to force them to unlock those already out there, if it helps prevent one terrorist attack then it's worth it.
  Jan Higgins, Paul M and howard mcsweeney1 like this
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 November 2016     16:12320645
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  We live in dangerous times as evidenced by the many prosecutions of people who were planning terrorist acts. I suggest that our security services have crossed the legality line many times in order to foil potential outrages, this merely rubber stamps things for them. Over 100 MPs didn't vote, I wonder why.
• Guest 1912

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  18 November 2016     16:29320648
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   Reginald Barrington wrote:

  No problem from my perspective, though that suggests that Apple would no longer be able to sell Iphones and the government would able to force them to unlock those already out there, if it helps prevent one terrorist attack then it's worth it.

  
  i cant understand your point of view but this law has cons for Brits. Isn't?
• Guest 1912

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  18 November 2016     16:31320649
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   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  We live in dangerous times as evidenced by the many prosecutions of people who were planning terrorist acts. I suggest that our security services have crossed the legality line many times in order to foil potential outrages, this merely rubber stamps things for them. Over 100 MPs didn't vote, I wonder why.

  
  Well, yes there is no doubt on it that we live in danger where technology evolve around us but dont you think it will be negative for those who cant disclose their personal information.... I mean with this law, it clear enough that nothing is personal.
• Captain Haddock

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  18 November 2016     16:40320650
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   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  I suggest that our security services have crossed the legality line many times in order to foil potential outrages, this merely rubber stamps things for them.

  
  
  What has actually happened is that that GCHQ, SIS,Security Service etc have been working in a fast evolving technology and just as 'opening our post' was allowed with certain checks and balances (it's amazing what one could do with a high speed drill and a split knitting needle before the technology improved and one could read through envelopes) the changes will make sure that modern forms of interception of communication are actually not only [U]not[/U] illegal but actually part of the legislation so could not be challenged through the courts.
  
  As for the security of Apple phones don't forget whilst asymmetric key cryptography (e.g. RSA encryption /Diffie-Hellman key exchange) were supposedly invented in the early 1970s some forty years later it now appears that GCHQ were doing this in the 1960s! (I see they are still advertising for mathematicians today!) so when the claim is that the Apple iPhone is 'unbreakable' one might think it exactly the thing they would say , especially if they had already 'broken' it?
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson