Surveillance state costs UK public £1.9B

The government has announced it will “legislate” the proposed changes to the communications records regulations, which would allow such massive interventions in private lives of people, “as soon as parliamentary time allows.”

Estimates show the ‘legal’ spying scheme would cost the taxpayers some £1.9 billion in the first decade of its implementation, the Daily Mail reported.

This is while the figure is prepared based on 2009 estimates and does not cover the expected £200-million costs of annual storage of the obtained data.

The British public is already rising against the planned attack on their privacy.

Public mobilization campaign group 38 Degrees has managed to gather 76,393 signatures for an online petition it launched less than 18 hours ago to urge the government “stop the internet and phone snooping plan.”

The campaign group said on its website that the attempt to legalize unrestricted snooping on the people amount to “spying on [their] every move.”

“They want to see who we call, text and email, and which websites we visit – without any kind of warrant or reason,” 38 Degrees said.

The petition also calls on the government to keep to its election pledge to “reverse the rise of the surveillance state” that will materialize if the changes to the communication data regulations pass through the parliament.

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