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Title: UK Passes ‘Most Sweeping Surveillance Law’ to date & Looks to Spend $1 Billion on Reaper Drones
Published: 2016-11-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octTjBFoK_M
Title: UK Passes ‘Most Sweeping Surveillance Law’ to date & Looks to Spend $1 Billion on Reaper Drones
Published: 2016-11-22
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octTjBFoK_M
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I everyone I'm Spiro reporting for news but today we're going to take a look at a couple of stories that you can find on new spots daily picks both stories are unfolding in the UK and we do have lots of people in the UK who have contributed to new spots face to Kickstarter campaign which only has about five days to go to reach our goal news2/11
but is one hundred percent funded by you the people so become part of the news but community today visit our Kickstarter page and pledge your support for independent media now in her first story the UK government has passed what is being called the most extreme surveillance law in the history of western democracy the new law known as snipers charter to or the investigatory powers bill as3/11
passed by both UK legislative houses and expected to be rubber stamped by the royal house and become law by the end of this year now let me remind you that's about five weeks away now the former home secretary and newly appointed prime minister of the UK Theresa may championed the bill that will grant the legal footing to some already existing surveillance measures now in the name4/11
of fighting terrorists and criminals on mine the proposed internet surveillance bill would allow the UK government to open your mail without a warrant the bill requires internet service providers to log every users web browsing history for a year which can then be accessed by the police and intelligence officers without a warrant the bill also introduces new powers for the UK intelligence agencies and law enforcement for5/11
targeted interception of communications bulk communication collection and bulk interception of communications now this bill even allows the government to hack your phone or computer and these are just few of the measures that are in this bill even if you've never committed a crime or not the subject of an official investigation you may be subject of this digital surveillance Bella Sankey who is a policy director of6/11
a UK based human rights group named liberty said in a statement under the guise of counterterrorism state has achieved totalitarian style surveillance powers the most intrusive system of any democracy in human history Sankey added the fight is not in here our message to the government see you in court I'm going to leave a link in the show not so you can read this bill in its7/11
entirety yourself our next story on news buds daily picks the UK plans to buy one billion dollars worth of enhanced reaper drones from the US state department the MQ nine reaper a larger more lethal Jerome then that predator can carry hellfire missiles laser guided bombs GPS guided bombs and will be used to support the UK's armed forces and coalition forces engaged in current and future peacekeeping8/11
counter insurgent and counterterrorism operations and peace enforcing now you may be wondering how do you enforce peace well according to the government with a very deadly reaper drones now I can see that the UK government is really putting to use the taxpayer's money just like they do here in the U. S. spending it on war and surveillance now for more in depth drone coverage see your9/11
previous round tables the lexicon of casino gambling in Jerome kills how Vegas drone pilots score a jackpot with professor Joseph Google the essay and another episode examining the real costs of drone warfare with professor Abigail hall Blanco now this episode was made possible by our supporters and we'd like to thank all of them in this episode we're gonna think lan Monica L. Harvey be Nicholas H.10/11
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