Snoopers' Charter is a 'security nightmare' that rides roughshod over privacy, warns Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Carly Page
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Berners-Lee blasts coach-and-horses driven through security and privacy by government

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has hit out at the Investigatory Powers Bill, which this week received royal assent, claiming that such a law "has no place in a modern democracy".  The IP Bill, better known...

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