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Spying on MPs, breaking encryption: New UK law deeply troubling
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UK Draft IP Bill: The last policy discussion about surveillance before the mass gagging | Conspicuous Chatter
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| | I laughed out loud when I saw the calls fromAndrew Parker, the head of MI5, for a mature debate on surveillance, in particular in relation to the draft investigatory Powers Bill (via Paul Bernal). My reading of the IP Bill is that it will result in, and perhaps intends, closing for ever the democratic debate...
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UK surveillance law still fuzzy on decryption rules for comms providers | TechCrunch
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| | A little more detail has emerged about how a key component of the controversial U.K. surveillance law (the Investigatory Powers Act, which was passed at the end of last year) is likely to function -- after a government consultation document on so-called Technical Capability Notices was published yesterday by the digital rights organization Open Rights Group.
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The Investigatory Powers Act: A Pre-Commencement Briefing
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| | [AI summary] The Investigatory Powers Act, now passed in the UK, poses significant privacy risks by enabling the government to collect and use Internet Connection Records for surveillance, necessitating measures like Tor or VPNs to protect users.
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John Battelle's Search Blog Don't Sleep on the EU's Digital Markets and Digital Services Acts
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| (This is a preview of a piece I'm working on for Signal360, to be published next week.) "The US litigates, the EU legislates." That's what one confidential source told me when I asked about the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, the European Union's twin set of Internet regulations coming into force this...