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UK: IP BILL: Why are the intelligence agencies revealing their spying techniques?

10 March 2016

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"Now that the security services are allowed to record us through our phones, privacy has become impossible – unless we renounce modern telecoms....And is it a good idea to take a chainsaw to your computer or incinerate your iPhone? Certainly, if you have something illegal to hide – although doing so will inevitably limit your ability to commit more crimes. For the rest of us, it all depends on whether we value our personal privacy more highly than the convenience of using modern communications – and whether we think the agencies are on our side."

See the article: Why are the intelligence agencies revealing their spying techniques? (Guardian, link)

and see: Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history (Guardian, link): "Latest version of investigatory powers bill will allow police to hack people’s computers and view browsing history."

See: Equipment Interference: DRAFT Code of Practice [Spring] 2016 (pdf)

And Statewatch: Remote access to computers: Is it time to go back to the typewriter, carbon paper and Tippex? (March 2015) by Tony Bunyan and: EU agrees rules for remote computer access by police forces (September 2009) by Tony Bunyan

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