North Korea type Snoopers charter and 1 man and a van justifications

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The snoopers charter which ALREADY allows the most extensive spying on its own citizens outside of China or North Korea (and possible actually worse given the higher levels of connectivity here) is intended to be increased by the Tories.

 

Much of the justification is these 1 man in a van attacks which horrendous as they are, are no more than occurs on a daily basis in most major cities by alcohol or mentally ill people.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/technology/britain-encryption-privacy-hate-speech.html?ribbon-ad-idx=15&rref=world/europe

 

 

Given that the existing snooping powers in the UK

"Recent legislation already gives Britain’s law enforcement officials some of the world’s strongest powers to read and monitor online chatter"

have done NOTHING to stop these man in a van or man with a knife attacks, DESPITE a number of them being on international watch listsm it beggars the question of

 

How would increasing these powers actually make a difference given that even the attacks by KNOWN Islamist extremists on UK and international watch lists were not affected in any way ?

 

How is policing and monitoring of those spying on UK citizens going to be carries out and reported and properly policed - including reporting to the public what is occurring or has occurred?

 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/25/contents/enacted

 

Worth noting:

In the US spying on the nations OWN citizens is treated differently to foreign nationals.

 

 

 

Do we really want the UK to be the envy of North Korea - for all the wrong reasons?