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[UK] Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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Any online account. So Instagram and TikTok, but also NHS accounts, banking apps, work accounts, they have carte blanche to just rifle through anything and everything that you've signed into? With no judicial warrant required.
America may be openly fascist now, but the UK isn't far behind.
And this is under a Labour government.
If you have any left wing leanings, vote Green in future, convince friends and family to vote Green.
Labour are authoritarian and the Lib-Dems will sell out any principles for a whiff of power. The Greens might have some shit candidates, but they at least support proportional representation and not starting a police state.