OpenStack 11/26/2014 (p.m.)

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

  Tags: surveillance state, UK, legislation, ISP-records

  • 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

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