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November 11, 2015 06:04 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3xV1UKB0wSg/britons-internet-access-bill.html
Britons' Internet access bills will soar to pay for Snoopers Charter
The UK government has budgeted £175m/year to bribe ISPs to magically divide their customers' "data" and "metadata" and store a year's worth of the latter. This isn't even close to the real cost of creating and maintaining the massive storehouses of highly sensitive data on every Briton, and so ISPs are warning government and the public to expect much higher broadband rates in the future in order to recoup the cost of mass surveillance. (more…)
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