Hypocritical Snoopers Charter: 'UK violates rights to freedom of speech' + Mass surveillance in the UK - A Simple Question

Britain has unveiled a controversial proposal - the "Snooper's Charter" -- that gives spy agencies new powers to monitor emails, phone calls and track internet usage. An interview with Chris Bambery, political analyst.
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UK privacy laws have been under renewed scrutiny recently alongside a new secretive government proposal that allow them unprecedented levels of access to the entire population's phone records, emails, browsing history and activity on social networking sites. What's worse, this process would be allowed without any interference from the courts. The new initiative is called the Communications Capabilities Development Program (CCDP) and resembles IMP-style mass surveillance of the British public that the coalition agreement deemed as unacceptable, when it first formed.

While the coalition government is calling the proposal a step towards a more "modernized" system of controlling data, it is being criticized as highly invasive and stripping citizens from their civil liberties since it forces companies to store data locally and make it accessible to police whenever they request. Surveillance on this scale is never proportionate and is therefore in contravention of international human rights norms - it is also unlawful in most democratic countries.

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