UK’s May to be grilled on monitoring law

Under the proposed legislation, internet companies may be obliged to install hardware that would allow Britain’s secret eavesdropping service, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), to gain access to British people’s communications data.

The proposed law is expected to be announced in the British Queen’s Speech in May, which would outline the government’s legislative intentions.

The legislation would expand the British police and security services’ power to have access to details of any phone call, email exchange and website visit on demand without having to seek a formal warrant.

Britain’s intelligence services, MI6, MI5, and GCHQ, have been behind the new plans as they have fiercely lobbied the government for introducing the legislation, reported Sky News.

Conservative MP David Davis has described the new legislation as a “snoopers charter”, maintaining that enforcing such laws would turn Britain into a “nation of suspects”.

Meanwhile, David Omand, former head of GCHQ, also referred to as Britain’s electronic ‘listening’ agency, has called for greater monitoring of British people’s activities on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

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