Kiss your privacy goodbye – Britain just passed the most invasive surveillance law in the democratic world [OPINION] |

The entire world is reeling from geopolitical events in 2016. Circumstances that perhaps seemed unthinkable as little as a year ago are now a stark reality. But if you thought this year could not possibly cram in any more political earthquakes, you were wrong. While the UK has been preoccupied with the election of Donald Trump in the US and the continuing Brexit fiasco at home, Theresa May’s government passed what some are calling “the most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy”.

The ‘Snooper’s Charter’, now a reality

Theresa May proposed the controversial ‘Snooper’s Charter’ back in 2012. It was a bill seeking unrestricted government access to every UK resident’s personal information and browsing history. Back then, May was Home Secretary in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government. The proposal was met with widespread opposition, and effectively blocked by then-Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Four years, one general election and a Brexit later, Theresa May is Prime Minister – and its latest reincarnation is barely a blip on the public’s radar.

 

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