gminick - Slashdot User

Comment Keeping up the pace with journalists (Score 1) 114

by gminick on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:56PM (#39947771) Attached to: More Plans For UK Internet Snooping Bill Revealed In Queen's Speech

The Draft Communications Bill '...will allow the police and intelligence agencies to collect data on communications, like texts and emails...'

It's high time for the police and intelligence to keep up the pace with journalists!

UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs 595

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:13PM from the must-be-ok-if-the-good-guys-do-it dept.

toomanyairmiles writes "The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."

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