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UK: Home Office presses ahead with 'snooper's charter': Conservatives to press ahead with lobbying to introduce the snooper's charter, despite revelations about US internet surveillance

11 June 2013

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"Home Office ministers are to press ahead with their campaign to give the police and security services sweeping "snooper's charter" powers to monitor internet and phone use in Britain despite the outcry over the disclosure of the scale of US internet surveillance."

Full story: Home Office presses ahead with 'snooper's charter': Conservatives to press ahead with lobbying to introduce the snooper's charter, despite revelations about US internet surveillance (Guardian, link)

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