British Government Plans to Monitor Web Use of Citizens

The Takeaway

The British government is moving forward with a proposal to allow its intelligence agency, GCHQ, to monitor calls, emails, texts and online searches of everyone inside the U.K.’s borders. Robert Schifreen is an IT consultant in England, and argues that the GCHQ has been monitoring citizen’s activities for quite some time, but passing a law such as the one proposed will make intercepted information  admissible  in court.

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