United Kingdom - Radical phone and Internet monitoring proposal to be put to parliament

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns a bill allowing monitoring of all phone calls, text messages, emails and other electronic communications that the British government plans to submit to parliament in the coming weeks. “We are shocked to hear more and more supposedly democratic countries such as India, France, Australia and now the United Kingdom expressing a desire to adopt the kind of systematic monitoring of communications used by the planet's most repressive regimes,” Reporters (...)

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