Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade
by pjc50 on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:23AM
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preventing surveillance of Parliamentarians' communications
.. except when authorised by the PM. Who recently called the leader of the opposition a threat to national security.
Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade
by SFLemonade on Friday November 06, 2015 @06:54AM
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The creepiest implication with this is if you get the wrong person in power at the right time, they might be able to keep their party or interests in power for an atypically long time, given access to these new tools. We all know that keeping one political interest in control for any extended period of time is never good.
> The draft bill's measures include:
> Allowing the security services to hack into phones and computers around the world in the interests of national security
> A new criminal offence of "knowingly or recklessly obtaining communications data from a telecommunications operator without lawful authority", carrying a prison sentence of up to two years
In the same breath they threaten prison sentences for doing exactly what they state they're doing.
> The Wilson doctrine - preventing surveillance of Parliamentarians' communications - to be written into law
Come on guys, now you're just taking the piss