🚨 BREAKING 🚨
New powers were slipped into the UK Crime and Policing Bill yesterday ⚠️
The police will be given powers to extract data from seized devices and any online accounts accessed on it.
No judicial oversight, just on the say so of a senior officer 😖
Read our response ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-forces-to-get-authoritarian-powers-to-extract-data-from-online-accounts/
#CrimeAndPolicingBill #police #policing #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
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