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1/ I am new to the "Crime Overseas Production Order Bill" but if I am reading this right, it seems to be a British backdoor into American s702 #FISA-type mechanisms, aka PRISM: #COPObill computerworlduk.com/security/what-… 
2/ …and it seems that I am not the only one: #COPObill
3/ …as @IndexCensorship describes it, it sounds a bit like an open door for mass access of data held in social network "Content Service Providers" - with low barrier to entry:
@IndexCensorship 4/ Security Minister @BWallaceMP is speaking of it in terms of internet xenophobia ("…faraway Content Service Providers…"?) which is generally a red flag for me:
theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=20…
theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=20…
@IndexCensorship @BWallaceMP 5/5 Given stuff like this, all the more reason to start using End-to-End Encryption for everything — especially (say) if you are a Journalist and publishing leaks of Government documents. #COPObill
@IndexCensorship @BWallaceMP 6/5 "…data that is corrupting the internet and radicalising our families and our children…"
It takes a person to be corrupted; if @BWallaceMP had said "…books that are radicalising our families and our children", or perhaps "pamphlets", he'd sound straight out of the 1700s
It takes a person to be corrupted; if @BWallaceMP had said "…books that are radicalising our families and our children", or perhaps "pamphlets", he'd sound straight out of the 1700s
