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...whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World.
- Requires web and phone companies to store records of websites visited by every citizen for 12 months for access by police, security services and other public bodies.
- Makes explicit in law for the first time security services' powers for the bulk collection of large volumes of personal communications data.
- Makes explicit in law for the first time the powers of the security services and police to hack into and bug computers and phones. Places new legal obligation on companies to assist in these operations to bypass encryption.
Comment: It's no wonder police go around killing innocent civilians. They are being shown that police are held to a different set of laws than the citizens they are paid to protect. How does wearing a badge equate with being able to break laws that would put the average citizen in jail? Only a police state would allow such a discrepancy in justice to exist.