Security → UK: Emergency powers - phone and internet records

"Emergency powers to ensure police and security services can continue to access phone and internet records are being rushed through Parliament.

Prime Minister David Cameron has secured the backing of all three main parties for the highly unusual move.

He said urgent action was needed to protect the public after the European Court of Justice struck down existing surveillance powers.

He stressed that the measures were about "plugging holes" in the legislation but were not about any "new obligations for phone and internet companies, nor any new intrusions on civil liberties".

But civil liberties campaigners have warned it will invade people's privacy"

»www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-po ··· 28237111

What took you guys so long?
»www.theguardian.com/tech ··· -charter

-nony

Edward Snowden condemns Britain's emergency surveillance bill-
»www.theguardian.com/worl ··· bill-nsa

We are trying to get ours passed ASAP-
»oti.newamerica.net/sites ··· 1114.pdf

Gotta work both sides of the pond!

Related-

Targeting our government leaders with psyops continues to reap its benefits
»www.psywarrior.com/Vietn ··· YOP.html
»www.psywarrior.com/Vietn ··· OP2.html
»www.psywarrior.com/links.html (for enthusiasts only)
»www.corbettreport.com/ps ··· rations/ (for students)

But as they used to say-
Better Living Through Chemistry. Can you say MKULTRA?

»www.history.com/news/ask ··· with-lsd
(Some of us know [about] people who were dosed wittingly/unwittingly...)

-nony

»www.privacyinternational ··· on-trial

-nony

Sounds like they want to join the "stinger on cell tower" club and need a quick law passed to fill the gap.

»www.smh.com.au/digital-l ··· vtf.html

Don't want to be left behind

Let's not leave out New Zealand...
»tvnz.co.nz/politics-news ··· -5537841
The Government's rush to get the Bill through, has seen thousands turn out at protest marches and public meetings and some high-profile opposition.

»www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ ··· tion.htm
It’s something that should have happened when the Kitteridge Report came out last year but, instead, the Prime Minister – the man in charge of our intelligence services – rushed through dodgy legislation to paper over some serious illegalities and shortcomings in how these agencies operate. Kiwis are now having their personal information and online communications collected by Government spies who seemingly have no idea of what they’re doing, or even why, and that information is being handed over to foreign agencies without public scrutiny.

»www.nzherald.co.nz/inter ··· 11222413
The GCSB (Government Communications Security Bureau) is New Zealand's "eye" in the Five Eyes and, two weeks ago, GCSB head Ian Fletcher tried to reassure us that we are not subject to mass surveillance by the GCSB or any other security agency. It was a hopeful but futile attempt to deny the truth.

-nony

This data law has nothing to do with catching terrorists-
»www.dailymail.co.uk/deba ··· wer.html

Open Letter to UK Prime Minister-
»globalnetworkinitiative. ··· 2014.pdf

Open letter from UK legal academic experts re DRIP-
»paulbernal.wordpress.com ··· re-drip/

-nony

Of course not!
»www.theguardian.com/worl ··· w-powers

-nony

»www.theguardian.com/worl ··· -network
David Irvine tells Senate committee that Australia's spy agency is not conducting mass-scale surveillance and only 'a few thousand' people each year are of intelligence interest

-nony