My Way News - UK deputy leader: Surveillance bill won't happen
My Way News reports: "A mass Internet monitoring program touted by Britain's government as a terror-fighting tool is unworkable, the country's deputy leader said Thursday, vowing that it would not become law. [...] The proposal would have forced communications service providers to retain for a year a huge amount of personal data - including a record of websites visited, emails sent and Skype calls made - and make it available to law enforcement and other government agencies at the stroke of a key. Authorities would need a warrant to see the content of calls, emails and other communications."

My Way News - Rights group sues UK over exports of spy tech
My Way News reports: "Privacy International said Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit before London's High Court over the government's refusal to say whether it was investigating U.K.-based Gamma International, whose FinFisher software has been linked to use in more than two dozen countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam. [...] The export of Western surveillance software to repressive regimes has drawn increasing attention in the wake of the pro-democracy uprisings in the Arab world that laid bare the high-tech methods used by state spy agencies to stifle dissent."