Security News > 2017 > May > UK govt wants real-time communication surveillance powers, courtesy of telcos (Help Net Security)

A leaked draft of proposed regulations shows that the UK government is after greater communication surveillance powers, and that in order to get them, it will legally require UK communications companies to provide the technical capabilities. The regulations would compel UK postal, phone and ISP companies to provide real-time access to targeted customers’ communications, and this includes providing backdoors into encrypted ones (if the encryption capability is provided by the operator). “[The telecom operators would … More →

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