This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition This is a petition to have the Investigatory Powers Bill decommissioned.
"This Act sets out the extent to which certain investigatory powers may be used to interfere with privacy."
There is a difference between targeted surveillance and blanket mass surveillance.
When you collect everything, you see nothing.
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The Investigatory Powers Bill has passed the third reading in the House of Lords and will be passed into law by the end of the year...
http://www.computerworlduk.com/security/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-what-you-need-know-3629116/
Everyone leaves a digital footprint. Any thing you have ever posted, sent, searched for and more is being collected by the UK government.
https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news-article/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-introduced-parliament
This needs to stop.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199
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