UK- New Security Bill will force online service providers to keep log of users' activity

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/new-security-bill-will-force-online-service-providers-to-keep-log-of-users-activity-9877902.html

New Security Bill will force online service providers to keep log of users' activity

Sunday 23 November 2014

Terrorists and child sex rings could be uncovered through their internet discussions as part of a tough set of security measures to be unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May this week. Major online service providers, such as Google, will be legally obliged to retain a log of users and the mobile phones or computers they have accessed in case police and security agencies later need the information to help them locate criminals. This measure will be included in the Counter-terrorism and Security Bill that is being introduced in the wake of Isis’s beheadings of prisoners, including British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, this year

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are assigned to all devices, but are often temporary and the records on them patchy. Forcing firms to maintain a log of IP addresses and who used them will help police trace terror suspects who hatch their plans through the internet, as well as cyber bullies and members of organised crime gangs.

“The Bill provides the opportunity to resolve the very real problems that exist around IP resolution and is a step in the right direction towards bridging the overall communications data capability gap,” said Ms May.

However, the Home Secretary is keen to go further and allow security services to access every website that people visit through a Data Communications Bill, which she argued was “a matter of national security”. The Liberal Democrats blocked plans for what they derided as a “snooper’s charter” last year.
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1. Terrorists and child sex rings, my ass.

They want total information awareness and the ability to suppress dissent.

Our governments of the West have become monsters growing corporate totalitarianism.

[Enthusiast]

2. +1

[woo me with science]

3. kick

Totalitarianism spreading.