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Privacy International’s advocacy director Edin Omanovic voiced his concern about the trial. He said: “Make no mistake, as warned, the Investigatory Powers Act gives authorities across the UK some of the most far-reaching and draconian surveillance powers found anywhere in the world. “When the Bill was proposed we were promised the most transparent surveillance regime in the world. “Yet here we have a secret experiment where two secret internet companies have reportedly been collecting i...

Home Office chiefs are facing a furious backlash from MPs and civil liberties campaigners after teaming-up with UK internet providers to test ways to track peoples browsing history. In a move described by one MP as a spectacular invasion of privacy, the Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have conducted a secretive trial which allows them to obtain information on what internet sites people have visited. If the small scale scheme is a success, data collection systems could be rolled...

The ISPs involved in the trial will keep create an Internet Connection Record, or ICR, which can be used to look back through a list of every website that a person visited. The time of the visit is also recorded in the document. It’s unclear whose internet history is being tracked and recorded as part of the test. The scale of the current trial is also unknown. In fact, the existence of the tests would not have been known at all without an extensive report from gadget magazine WIRED. In their...

Getty Images / WIRED For the last two years police and internet companies across the UK have been quietly building and testing surveillance technology that could log and store the web browsing of every single person in the country. The tests, which are being run by two unnamed internet service providers, the Home Office and the National Crime Agency, are being conducted under controversial surveillance laws introduced at the end of 2016. If successful, data collection systems could be rolled ou...