The U.K. Investigatory Powers Act. Do your feel the freedom and right to privacy you have given up is worth it?

[chilli42]

It's been said that The Snoopers Charter -- AKA the "Investigatory Powers Act" -- is the most extreme surveillance law in Europe, more extreme that America's Patriot Act and associated presidential orders and secret rulings from the Foreign Intelligence courts. Snowden nailed it when he said it "goes further than many autocracies."  This invasive act appears to have been passed with barely a whimper of protest.  It strikes me that much has been give up (freedom and basic rights) at the alter of security.  Perhaps more troubling is that surveillance powers outlast the rulers who create them.  Can you be certain those rulers will always be so benign?

[ubonjoe]

Not Thailand related.

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