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> It's going to be no different at all from the current situation.

That's not true at all. If OSB is passed, things will be quite different in the UK afterward.



The snoopers charter already exists, ISPs already have to report your web browsing to the Government database.

For everything else there are foreign agencies who are not limited by uk legislation.


The issue is that they can't defeat encryption currently, and wish to.

Encryption can hide web browsing and a lot more, which they don't like.




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