The British government has abandoned a controversial plan to allow the police and security services full access to people’s Internet browsing history. The Home Office said it removed several contentious proposals from the surveillance bill, as it fears that the plan to snoop on Internet users would be rejected in parliament over civil liberties concerns. Back in May, British ministers claimed the... 

Government intelligence agencies have direct access to telecommunication companies’ infrastructure which allows them to spy and record phone calls leaving no paper trail, the UK’s largest mobile phone company Vodafone has revealed. The British operator said wires have been attached to its phone networks in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe, as well as around the world, the... 

Conservative leader David Cameron warned today that Labour has created a ‘control state’ with sweeping powers to intrude into people’s private lives. Officials now had more than 1,000 reasons to knock on people’s doors and demand to enter their home, he said. That was more like a ‘foreign dictatorship or bygone age’ than a modern democracy. Mr Cameron also attacked...