The UK's Government has passed the "Snoopers Charter"

[WYP]

Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, a bill which is better known as the "Snooper's Charter".



Read more on the Snoopers Charter.

 

[wozza365]

Sad day. Time to invest in a VPN to make it at least a little bit more difficult.

 

[Dicehunter]

Time to try that Tunnel Bear VPN Linus always advertises.

 

[Dawelio]

And does this include every country in the world or just UK and one else? (Didn't quite get it from the article)... Like for instance Sweden? Norway? Finland etc?...

 

[Dicehunter]

And does this include every country in the world of just UK and one else? (Didn't quite get it from the article)... Like for instance Sweden? Norway? Finland etc?...

Just the UK, But I'm sure other governments are working on something similar.

 

[WYP]

Just the UK, But I'm sure other governments are working on something similar.

I'm pretty sure there are some countries that already do this, just off the books.

Cough, cough, US, cough.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I'm pretty sure there are some countries that already do this, just off the books.

Cough, cough, US, cough.

I'm pretty sure every modern 1st world government/country does this off the books. China is probably the biggest one.
Good thing we have the Tech Giants trying there hardest to make spying very difficult from all governments. WhatsApp being a great example

 

[Kushiro]

The one thing Aussies have good for now.

At least those the net is crazy fast in the UK. At least when compared to the speed that is available to most in Australia.

 

[SuB]

Glad I got that humble bundle with the VPN.. will come in handy

 

[Tripp]

So a vpn in the way to go then, does opera have a built in vpn?

 

[Wraith]

So a vpn in the way to go then, does opera have a built in vpn?

Yea but its hit and miss whether it works or not. That tunnel bear subscription sounds pretty good right now.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well I went the full tinfoil hat route and bought 1 years sub to tunnel bear after trying it for an hour.

/tinfoilhaton

 

[Doomslayer]

Well I went the full tinfoil hat route and bought 1 years sub to tunnel bear after trying it for an hour.

/tinfoilhaton

Nothing wrong with a tinfoil hat ^_^

The only problem i found using a VPN that i cut my connection speed bye 50% so i got a refund on my.

 

[Darkdayzzz]

Time to try that Tunnel Bear VPN Linus always advertises.

Tunnel Bear is decent, a easier and honestly better VPN is PIA (private internet access) $40 a year and can be used on 5 devices, stores nothing you do and they don't forward or hold any record or your internet usage.

It is really quite nice, using it on my pc here and my phone no snooping for you govn!

 

[Darkdayzzz]

I'm pretty sure there are some countries that already do this, just off the books.

Cough, cough, US, cough.

YUP ^ our govn most definitely does this! They have for years and yet people dont care cuz sensationalist media control here! Hurray for bullsh!t D:

 

[NeverBackDown]

So besides PIA and Tunnel Bear, are there any other good VPNs out there? Just curious, might start trying some out. I know some AV Suites have VPNs. Think Bitdefender does or was it Avast? Can't remember, but I doubt they are that good tbh

 

[Dicehunter]

Tunnel Bear is decent, a easier and honestly better VPN is PIA (private internet access) $40 a year and can be used on 5 devices, stores nothing you do and they don't forward or hold any record or your internet usage.

It is really quite nice, using it on my pc here and my phone no snooping for you govn!

Watching a review of TB, TB don't store any info either.

 

[Doomslayer]

So besides PIA and Tunnel Bear, are there any other good VPNs out there? Just curious, might start trying some out. I know some AV Suites have VPNs. Think Bitdefender does or was it Avast? Can't remember, but I doubt they are that good tbh

There's one called Astrill VPN from what i heard should be good Jayz did a video on it.

When i used PIA i found it to be crap it that it cut my connection speed bye 50% wasn't happy with them at all so i got a refund on it.

 

[NeverBackDown]

There's one called Astrill VPN from what i heard should be good Jayz did a video on it.

When i used PIA i found it to be crap it that it cut my connection speed bye 50% wasn't happy with them at all so i got a refund on it.

Hmm i'll check it out.
I only get 50Mb/s. I've used a VPN before and my speed dropped to ~18Mb/s. So if I get it, i'd probably upgrade my speed to be on the safe side.

 

[Lazlo]

Does anybody else think that would probably not have happened without the brexit? Because now the UK does not have to care about EU privacy and data protection laws.