Emergency phone and Internet data retention law set to be passed in the UK

[LukeB_UK]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28237111

[bazzargh]

BTW, this is why it's being rushed through: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/briefing-to-...

...it's not that there is some terrorist crisis, but that there's a judicial review in progress that is very likely to declare the current data retention law invalid.

[ciaranm]

Not sure why, but there was a previous submission for this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8014011 ), which now seems to be dead.