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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by d4nt on Friday November 06, 2015 @09:47AM (#10519694)
There is a big difference between mass surveillance, and a system of mandatory logging by private companies with warrant based access to individual's records for security officials.

A sensible compromise would be to accept a regime where the security services could read all the internet communications of particular individuals, or compel that individual to reveal decryption keys, subject to a warrant from a judge sitting in a public court who has decided there is reasonable grounds for suspicion.

Sadly, the proposed bill appears to still give too much power to the executive branch of government.

Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by nitrogen on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:25AM (#10519882)
Such a regime isn't reliably possible. A backdoor for an individual is a backdoor for a nation.