UK set to ramp up citizen surveillance program

As part of the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), the British government gave several new powers to law enforcement and security services. Intended to help these bodies better deal with online crime, the law called for the creation of ‘internet connection records’.

During initial testing, internet connection records (ICR) have been used to capture every website visited by ‘suspects’ based in an unspecified region. The UK government has announced the trial was a success and now plans to roll …

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