Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman

Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by SeanDav on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:32AM (#13035706)

Thanks for that link - only 35k signatures so far. People are sleepwalking into 1984.

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by TheGrumpyBrit on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:00AM (#13035839)

Nobody wants to sign the list of "People whose internet history we should look at first"

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by wastedhours on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:11AM (#13035878)

Might be a flippant comment, but that's the first thing that went through my mind. I've never gone deep into caring much about government overreach, but that was a terrifying subconscious reaction.

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by noir_lord on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:17PM (#13038210)

Welcome to the Panoptican crossed with a somewhat gilded cage.

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by gchadwick on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:23AM (#13036216)

This may just be a reflection of the fact that signing petitions (especially online ones) achieves very little. Sure you might get a debate in parliament about it but that debate could involve a handful of MPs and take a few minutes, concluding that everything is fine.

This has already been debated extensively in parliament, and got voted through.

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Re:Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, in... by Warp__ on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:44AM (#13035765)

It's rising all the time, 36,680 now!

I'm not so sure that many portions of this law will stand up to legal scrutiny.

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