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Re:Investigatory Powers Bill passes through Commons after La... by teh on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:56AM (#11860912)
We're a UK company running a project that uses user-facing encryption and one of the issues for us is that it's totally unclear what this bill means.

I read the relevant sections 10 times over but until this is tested in court we don't know. I don't want our company to be the test balloon though, so I'm hoping a larger company steps up and challenges some of the provisions.

Of course the "internet connection record" retention is really sad. Right now the use cases are very specific but I'm sure new use cases will be found soon with the usual reasoning (terrorists, etc)

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Re:Investigatory Powers Bill passes through Commons after La... by madaxe_again on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:07AM (#11860942)
When the IP Bill is law and the UK has left the EU in a few weeks time, we'll be winding up our company, making our 40 employees redundant.

We don't really have a choice. We work in ecommerce. Can't continue in those conditions.

It's fine - we'll live off British values.

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Re:Investigatory Powers Bill passes through Commons after La... by robert_foss on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:00AM (#11861362)
Imperialism and sauces organized by colour?
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Re:Investigatory Powers Bill passes through Commons after La... by secfirstmd on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:29PM (#11867001)
We will be moving our app development out of the UK also
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