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The government would already have the power to get this data anyway & what's to say they aren't already using means when necessary.

Providing it's being used constructively to catch criminal activities then I don't see why people should fear such an operation.

What are your main obligations against such an enforcement in the future forumers?

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The government would already have the power to get this data anyway & what's to say they aren't already using means when necessary.

Providing it's being used constructively to catch criminal activities then I don't see why people should fear such an operation.

What are your main obligations against such an enforcement in the future forumers?

Because what's not a crime today; can be a crime tomorrow.

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until there is a system in place which insures transparency, accountability and impartiality no government should be given anymore powers, if anything power should be devolved until it reaches that stage.

has anyone been watching hackgate unravel? Coulson, Cameron, Murdoch, Blair, Met police, Hertfordshire police...unchecked power breeds corruption. information is power.

Joke thing is if they used this system and actually found a suicide bomber who was planning to bomb a public place (not Israeli), they wouldnt do f*ck all (7/7) theyd just use it as a ploy to stir public outrage to fuel another war (iran?)

This is obviously just a ploy to crackdown on dissent. They obviously want to intercept the call when Morpheus rings.

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Ethical coders and hackers spend their lives work trying to create anonymous environents for ordinary citizens to mobilise dissent. And they want to counter this with bullshit laws.

If anything it should be the governments private information stored for public record. If you are an MP or High ranking officer u should b under constant scrutiny to check for corruption. Obviously this is intrusive but the honour of the job and wage bracket should be able to justify the sacrifice of privacy.

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May to call for new powers to ban extremist groups

 

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Mrs May says the new strategy will address the "full spectrum of extremism"
 
A future Conservative government would seek new powers to ban extremist groups and curb the activities of "harmful" individuals, Theresa May is to say.

Banning orders and "extreme disruption" orders will feature in the party's 2015 election manifesto, the home secretary will tell the Tory Party conference.

People could be stopped from speaking at public events and their social media use limited under "extremism ASBOs".

Mrs May is also expected to promise police greater access to internet data.

She is among a number of high-profile speakers on the third day of the Tory conference, with Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan also due to take the stage.

The home secretary will say her department will take responsibility for a new counter-extremism strategy across government to address "the full spectrum of extremism".

 

Prime Minister David Cameron told BBC Breakfast: "The problem that we have had is this distinction of saying we will only go after you if you are an extremist that directly supports violence.

"It has left the field open for extremists who know how not to step over the line. But these are people who have radicalised young minds and led to people heading off to Syria or Iraq to take part in this ghastly slaughter."

 

Internet data 'vital'

Among other things, the new strategy will seek to bolster Islamic institutions that operate in a way which is "compatible" with British values and look to improve vetting procedures to prevent extremists being appointed to positions of authority, including in schools.

Allegations that schools in Birmingham had been infiltrated by extremists led to a furious political row this summer between Mrs May and former Education Secretary Michael Gove over how best to deal with the roots of extremist ideologies.

The dispute led to the resignation of Mrs May's special adviser while Mr Gove - who has since become chief whip - apologised to his cabinet colleague for publicly questioning the action being taken by the Home Office.

Mrs May is also expected to pledge that a future Conservative government would give police and intelligence agencies more powers to access internet communications data, according to BBC political correspondent Carole Walker.

She said: "She has frequently argued internet data is vital for tackling terrorism and organised crime, and wants the police and intelligence services to access details of when and where phone calls and emails are sent - not their content."

 

'Hard end'

Mr Cameron has warned the Islamic State insurgency in Syria and Iraq poses a direct threat to the UK, with 500 British jihadists believed to have travelled to the two countries, while the UK's threat level has been recently raised from substantial to severe.

Mrs May will tell activists in Birmingham that the government has sought to address the twin threats of violent and non-violent extremism since 2010, but the focus of its counter-radicalisation strategy has been on the "hard end" of extremism.

 
The new strategy will aim to prevent extremists being appointed to positions of authority, including in schools

The government's new approach, she will suggest, will be more comprehensive and focused on "undermining and eliminating extremism in all its forms".

It will bring together existing measures, such as the statutory duty for public bodies to have a counter-radicalisation strategy and enhanced powers for the Charity Commission to close down charities that are a front for extremist activity, with new efforts to improve awareness and training about the risks posed by extremism.

 

'Inciting hatred'

The Home Office will take the lead across government by creating a central hub of knowledge and expertise to advise other departments, the public sector and civil society about the risks of extremism, particularly of infiltration.

But Mrs May will say a future Tory government will push for more powers to deal with extremist groups which spread hate but do not break existing laws.

At the moment, organisations can only be banned if there is evidence of links to terrorism.

Under the Tories' new proposals, groups that cannot currently be proscribed could be subject to banning orders should ministers "reasonably believe" that they intend to incite religious or racial hatred, to threaten democracy or if there is a pressing need to protect the public from harm, either from a risk of violence, public disorder, harassment or other criminal acts.

The granting of a ban, which would be subject to immediate review by the High Court, would make membership or funding of the organisation concerned a criminal offence.

 

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The police would also be given new powers to apply to a Court to impose extreme disruption orders on individuals, using the same criteria.

This could result in those targeted being stopped from taking part in public protests, from being present at all in certain public locations, from associating with named people, from using of conventional broadcast media and from "obtaining any position of authority in an institution where they would have influence over vulnerable individuals or children".

Breach of the restrictions - which would be time limited - would be a criminal offence.

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he did not think some of the measures were sufficiently tough, and called on Mrs May to reintroduce powers to relocate terror suspects to other parts of the country.

"I'm very surprised the home secretary is not announcing the introduction, or re-introduction, of relocation, which operated under control orders and which has been supported by David Anderson QC, who is now independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, among others," he said.

 

"It was shown to be both lawful and effective when the control orders regime was in place."

Labour has questioned the effectiveness of the Prevent strategy, saying all individuals returning from the Middle East should have to undergo a programme of de-radicalisation.

It has called for the government to reintroduce control orders scrapped in 2011.

 

 

 

looks like this is set to fly right under the radar once again due to all this ISIS scaremongering atm.

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Could police see your internet browsing history? Theresa May 'to include powers' in snooping bill

 

Senior officers allegedly want to revive plans to force firms to retain browsing histories for 12 months

 

 
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Poised to approve? Theresa May will introduce a new snooping bill

 

Every British person's internet browsing history could be viewed freely by police up to a year later if officers win powers in Theresa May's snooping bill.

Senior officers allegedly want to revive plans to force firms to retain browsing histories for 12 months - and today it was reported the Home Secretary is poised to grant the new power .

She will return to the Commons next week with a new surveillance bill after a previous version was mired in controversy and dubbed the Snoopers' Charter.

Her Bill has prompted an unprecedented spin offensive by security chiefs at GCHQ, who have invited The Times into their Cheltenham base and warned of the worst terror threat for 30 years .

One police chief told The Times he wants to have the same freedom to look at what websites people visited as if they had walked into a bank.

Richard Berry, the National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman for data communications refused to comment on any specifics of the forthcoming legislation.

But he insisted police were not looking for anything beyond what they could already access through telephone records.

 

 

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Secret no more: Your browsing history could be looked at remotely (posed by model)

 

 

Mr Berry, assistant chief constable at Gloucestershire Police, told the newspaper: "We essentially need the 'who, where, when and what' of any communication - who initiated it, where were they and when did it happened. And a little bit of the 'what', were they on Facebook, or a banking site, or an illegal child-abuse image-sharing website?

 

"Five years ago (a suspect) could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit."

 

He accepted it would be "far too intrusive" for officers to be able to access content of internet searches and social media messaging without additional safeguards such as the requirement for a judicial warrant.

 

The shelved Communications Data Bill - labelled a "snooper's charter" by critics - would have required companies to retain phone and email data to include records of browsing activity, social media use and internet gaming, among other things.

 

It was blocked by the Liberal Democrats due to privacy concerns during the coalition government but the forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill could revive the measures.

 

Tory MP David Davis told The Times: "It's extraordinary they're asking for this again, they are overreaching and there is no proven need to retain such data for a year."

 

 

 

 

at it again...

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