MI5 has been secretly collecting phone data for over 10 years, but that’s not surprising
Nov05
The BBC today reported that MI5, the British intelligence service, has been secretly collecting huge amounts of mobile phone data from UK citizens over the course of the last decade. The ‘revelations’ came following the unveiling of the revised ‘snooper’s charter‘, which gives the government an Orwellian level of control over how it chooses to collect data en masse and bypass encryption standards. It’ll also require ISPs to keep a record of the websites you visit for an entire year. During Home Secretary Theresa May’s speech, she referred to how security services have been allowed to access data under the…
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