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Internet Activity in Britain Stored for a Year Under New Surveillance Law

By CircleID Reporter
  • November 04, 2015, 7:47 pm PST
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The internet activity of everyone in UK will have to be stored for one year by Internet service providers, under the new surveillance law plans. “This duty would include forcing firms to hold a schedule of which websites someone visits and the apps they connect to through computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices. Police and other agencies would be then able to access these records in pursuit of criminals—but also seek to retrieve data in a wider range of inquiries, such as missing people.”

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