nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161128-133626 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161125s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161128-133626 doi eng 342 23 Bernal, Paul Author aut How the UK passed the most invasive surveillance law in democratic history Bernal, Paul Verfassungsblog 2016-11-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier You might not have noticed thanks to world events, but the UK parliament recently approved the government’s so-called Snooper’s Charter and it will soon become law. This nickname for the Investigatory Powers Bill is well earned. It represents a new level and nature of surveillance that goes beyond anything previously set out in law in a democratic society. It is not a modernisation of existing law, but something qualitatively different, something that intrudes upon every UK citizen’s life in a way that would even a decade ago have been inconceivable. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 privacy Snooper's Charta surveillance Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-the-uk-passed-the-most-invasive-surveillance-law-in-democratic-history/ raw object