General Article What is the Snooper’s Charter and should you be worried? Here’s everything you need to know

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The Investigatory Powers Bill will be signed into UK law later this year, but what is it?

By Jason Murdock

The Investigatory Powers Bill – dubbed the Snooper’s Charter by critics – will be signed into UK law by the end of 2016. It will enhance the spying powers open to police, intelligence agencies and public bodies and will provide strong legal backing for “bulk” collection (and hacking) of communications.

That means metadata about your phone calls, text messages, Internet browsing histories...

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