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ISPs 'blindsided' by UK.gov's 'emergency' data retention and investigation powers law

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Re: We're all screwed

"I'm looking forward to my close encounter with the cage of rats in Room 101."

All your PCs, phones, and data archives/backups will be taken away for several months in a large police van with maximum neighbourhood publicity. If you are lucky your front door will be intact if you woke up and answered the knocking quickly - even at 6am.

You will receive catalogues for extreme material - addressed with your full formal names that only go on official documents. Unknown hands will place pages from extreme magazines on your doorstep.

Eventually you will be told there is "insufficient evidence to charge" - which is the official fishing expedition phrase meaning "nothing found".

You will spend money with your solicitor - who will confidentially advise you not to pursue the matter unless you want to see a smear from a unknown source in your local press.

You will not get a CRB clearance. You will not be able to get a "fast" visa for the USA.

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