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Limited access without a warrant is needed because of the potential network of contacts springing up out of just 1 initial suspect. Eg Suspect X will contact A, B, C, D, E, and F, who will in turn contact a series of people. How can you get a warrant that covers the never ending list of yet unknown possible suspects? You would need to know quickly who was contacting who.

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Oh I see, we should become an Orwellian police state in an attempt to prevent terrorism.

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If Theresa May wants easier access to our internet info, I think it's only fair to ask for hers...I mean, so long as she has nothing to hide, nothing to fear, then what's the problem ;)

WhatDoTheyKnow.com - "Theresa May's Internet History"

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Ah, I remember the olden days (well, 2009)...

Tories outline plans to shrink 'surveillance state'

Yet now they pick up the ball dropped by New Labour... :(

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Good articles:

Web monitoring will lead to discrimination and blackmail

The surveillance state: growing under a coalition that pledged to reverse it

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Guess what Matt?

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Benjamin Franklin. (17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790)

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Sound bites were so much better in the eighteenth century.

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http://news.sky.com/home/article/16204656

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They might use this as a reason to licence the internet or something. can't have people upsetting the government and seen as fighting back.

is this just the beginning you ask. yes I say.

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yep,they've probably done more harm than good

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Since we didn't ask, your answer is both hypothetical and irrelevant...l:)

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Hackers 'target Home Office site'

Peaceful protest of government plans to monitor the internet or playing right into the governments hands, justifying the very thing they are protesting against?

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or is the gov behind the hack :tiptoe:

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No, they don't work weekends.

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Prevention is better than cure.. is all Im sayin'

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The more I think about this, the more I am concerned.

Not actually so much by this law, but by what happens afterward..

Why am I not concerned about this law? Simply because I don't believe it will work. Why don't I believe it will work? Well, the government has made it public. An act that will tell every terrorist group and criminal that their electronic communications are likely to be monitored. As such, they are going to switch to encrypted communications that are bounced off many proxies.

GCHQ may catch a few terrorists, but how many of the really competent (and therefore dangerous) ones are they likely to get?

No, my concern is this... They introduced the last law saying it was to catch terrorists. Clearly it hasn't worked as well as they want, as they want the new law. What will they want in three years time when this fails?