The UK's Investigatory Powers Act, considered the 'most extreme Internet surveillance law,' has begun testing for enforcement



In 2016, the Investigatory Powers Act came into force in the United Kingdom, allowing police and intelligence agencies to access email and Internet browsing history. In response, the British government has begun piloting communications monitoring under the Investigatory Powers Act, despite criticism from within the country that there is a risk of privacy of communications being compromised. I will.

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The Investigatory Powers Act allows the UK Government to require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and others to store user web browsing history over the last 12 months. The British Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA) are testing with two hidden ISPs to ensure smooth enforcement of the law. As of 2019, the Investigatory Powers Law Commission Secretariat (IPCO) , an independent body that oversees investigatory powers law, reports that it has already been tested twice.

The data saved by the ISP in accordance with the Investigatory Powers Law can be investigated after the court issues a warrant. It is said that the data includes the IP address of the connected person and the connected domain, but the Ministry of Interior refuses to answer the question of what kind of data to acquire and how to use it. doing.

NCA has announced that it has spent at least £ 130,000 (about 20 million yen) on building the technical system that will be the basis for conducting tests, but if this law is deployed nationwide, it will build the system. It has also been pointed out that such things may become a financial burden for private ISPs.



From the time the bill was submitted, the Investigatory Powers Act had been negatively expressed by Apple and others. Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) employee with a track record of accusating the NSA's international surveillance network , called the Investigatory Powers Act 'the most overkill surveillance law in the history of Western democracy.' I tweeted and criticized it.




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