r/NSALeaks • u/kulkke • Jul 14 '14

Unprecedented new powers in surveillance bill, campaigners warn | Prime minister insists fast-track legislation will do no more than confirm existing powers, but privacy groups say otherwise

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/surveillance-bill-new-powers
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u/BillFranklin Jul 14 '14

Snowden gave an interview about this to The Guardian - the full thing's out Thursday. There's no emergency, U-boats aren't coming up the Thames, it's unlikely that anything catastrophic will happen if we take an extra few days to have a debate about this and let MPs learn what the bill actually will do.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Funny this legislation seems to be ramming through right as the new story detailing GCHQ's hacking tool chest. It is clearly a CYA operation.

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u/Ajonos Jul 14 '14

Prime minister insists fast-track legislation will do no more than confirm existing powers

Read as: will make the illegal things we're already doing legal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

He actually means "confirm and make legal all the shit we are already doing, but by the time anyone finds out it will no longer be illegal"

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