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[UK] Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts (www.openrightsgroup.org)
submitted 17 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago

These clauses added to the Bill yesterday grant powers for police to access any online account and the information within it, on approval of a senior officer, through a seized phone or device.

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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Guess UK is joining the USA in becoming a fascist police state.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

we've always been at war with eurasia

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

So fucking scary how the world is turning into that book. Its like these fuckers read it as an owner's manual instead of what it was meant to be.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can't extract the data if you don't have the account .

[–] Scavenger8294@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago

true but apple and the other big names know who you are, even if you dont give them your name. Then its all about the lengths that apple and co wants to go to help them catch you