While the world watches Ukraine, the British government has quietly dropped a requirement for mass surveillance of UK internet users by their service providers.
A public consultation on the Electronic Communications (Security Measures) Regulations 2022, currently in draft, revealed that a controversial plan to bring back internet connection records monitoring has been deleted after pushback from ISPs.
The latest version of the regulations, published this week, now says that the 13-month logging requirement applies only to monitoring “security critical functions” of telcos and ISP networks.
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Source: The Register