Snoopers' Charter

Question 1

Describe the act

Answer 1

It requires web and phone companies to store everyone’s web browsing histories for 12 months and give the police, security services and official agencies unprecedented access to the data.

Question 2

motivation for introduction

Answer 2

The Internet presets new opportunities for terrorists

Question 3

Criticism

• Authoritarian regimes

Answer 3

It would provide an international standard to authoritarian regimes around the world to justify their own intrusive surveillance powers.

Question 4

Corbyn’s comment

Answer 4

Jeremy Corbyn denounced the extension of state surveillance, describing it as a “travesty of parliamentary democracy’.

Question 5

What did Labour do

• Consensus?

Answer 5

Labour did not table any major amendments to the legislation in the House of Lords to make it fit for purpose. The party even voted for the new powers contained in the bill.