UK police hoping to track down suspected criminals online are about to get a boost, with Home Secretary Theresa May moving to give law enforcement additional powers to acquire details linked to IP addresses from internet service providers.
The anti-terrorism and security bill will require that internet service providers retain information which can help identify individual users via their IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.
“Loss of the capabilities on which we have always relied is the great danger we face,” the Press Association cited May as saying. “The bill provides the opportunity to resolve the very real problems that exist around IP resolution and is a step in the right direction towards bridging the overall communications data capability gap.”
May said it would be necessary to make “further changes” to the law, adding that the government should continue making its case for the Draft Communications Data Bill – labeled by critics as a “snoopers’ charter” – on national security grounds.
According to the Home Office, internet service providers have no proprietary interest in keeping data on which individual users has used each IP address, sometimes making it impossible for police and security services to identify who is operating online at any particular time.
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