Submitted on Saturday 12th November 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
This is a petition to have the Investigatory Powers Bill decommissioned.
"This Act sets out the extent to which certain investigatory powers may be used to interfere with privacy."
There is a difference between targeted surveillance and blanket mass surveillance.
When you collect everything, you see nothing.
The Investigatory Powers Bill has passed the third reading in the House of Lords and will be passed into law by the end of the year...
http://www.computerworlduk.com/security/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-what-you-need-know-3629116/
Everyone leaves a digital footprint. Any thing you have ever posted, sent, searched for and more is being collected by the UK government.
https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news-article/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-introduced-parliament
This needs to stop.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199
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