Thursday (10 July 2014), the British government issued an emergency law, which is precipitated by Parliament next week, to strengthen the powers that can be used to force all communication service providers to store meta data for 12 months. The bill also stipulates that foreign companies will have to comply to communications data requests made by the British authorities.
In April of this year, the European Court of Justice ruled that the existing powers to force ISPs and other companies to open an Internet session and phone records of people is invalid. Without this ability, the British government apparently can not keep the country free "criminals and terrorists." But activists much privacy and digital rights such as The Open Rights Group are concerned that this is going to invade the privacy of individuals.
bills were apparently secret agreement by all major political parties in the UK and are expected to become law in a matter of days . This coincides with increased concerns about jihadi terrorists and security checks increased in the UK and US airports, however, the British government has told the BBC that the time is linked to a campaign to get media companies to comply with the ruling of the European Court in April.
What this means for HMA! Pro VPN?
The data retention bill and Investigations Powers only applies to metadata and not the content of emails, calls or texts. However, in the case of a VPN service such as ours, this would include all log data. At present, this is not a change in the laws of the UK and it still requires the UK Home to a specific order for a single company to comply. To date, these powers are not used to constrain HMA! retain data for 12 months, and in the state, we have given no indication that this position will change.
The other part of the proposed legislation is to extend the right of the British authorities to request data from foreign companies. Again, this has no impact on us that we are not a foreign company, and it is more likely to be directed against companies such as Twitter and Facebook that have a presence in the UK, even if their servers are controlled abroad. !
here in Hide My Ass, we keep an eye on developments and last night, we were presented a Channel 4 News report on this subject:
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