{"id":141244,"date":"2020-04-22T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/22\/ministers-plan-to-give-more-uk-public-bodies-power-to-hack-phones\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:44:18","slug":"ministers-plan-to-give-more-uk-public-bodies-power-to-hack-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141244","title":{"rendered":"Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to hack phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expansion of \u2018snoopers\u2019 charter\u2019 would allow more authorities to access web browsing historiesMinisters want to expand the scope of controversial surveillance laws to give more public authorities \u2013 including a pensions watchdog and the Environment Agency \u2013 the power to hack phones and computers.Five additional public bodies are to be allowed to obtain communications data under the Investigatory Powers Act \u2013 frequently dubbed the snoopers\u2019 charter \u2013 as they are \u201cincreasingly unable to rely on local police forces to investigate crimes on their behalf\u201d, according to documents published by the government. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/ministers-plan-to-give-more-uk-public-bodies-power-to-hack-phones\" target=\"_blank\">Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to hack phones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expansion of \u2018snoopers\u2019 charter\u2019 would allow more authorities to access web browsing historiesMinisters want to expand the scope of controversial surveillance laws to give more public authorities \u2013 including a pensions watchdog and the Environment Agency \u2013 the power to hack phones and computers.Five additional public bodies are to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}