The UK government is quietly pushing a major expansion of state surveillance powers, and almost no one is paying attention.
Buried in new amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill is a proposal (NC63) that would let senior officers access online accounts, email, cloud storage, social media, without a warrant, so long as the device used to access them has been lawfully seized.
No judge. No independent oversight. Just internal sign-off.
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-crime-bill-amendments-expand-digital-surveillance-access
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