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17th April 2024 Issue no. 701

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Revealed, snoopers charter will cost YOU £2bn

Big Brother plans to spy on all internet visits, emails and texts will cost the taxpayer £2billion. The extraordinary bill was revealed amid revelations that Britain's snooping watchdog has grave doubts about the mass surveillance project.

The Office of the Information Commissioner said the case had 'not been made' to justify the sweeping expansion in the power of the police and other public bodies to trawl through private communications, including visits to Facebook and eBay.

Internal ICO papers, marked restricted, say the Orwellian plan could lead to the innocent being wrongly identified as criminals or terrorists and barred from flying.

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