#publisher Metro » The government could soon be able to access everyone’s browsing history Comments Feed alternate alternate Metro WordPress.com [tr?id=1522229268091476&ev=PageView&noscript=1] IFRAME: //www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NX8Q6N This site uses cookies. By continuing, your consent is assumed. Learn more News... but not as you know it 68.3m shares Trending Nutshell * Home * News + UK + World + Weird + Tech * Sport + Football + Oddballs + Club Metro + Transfer news + Viral videos * Entertainment + Showbiz + TV + Film + Music + Gaming + Celebrity Big Brother + Soaps * Lifestyle + Sex + Fashion + Food + Travel * More + Lifestyle + Blogs + Competitions + Jobs + Property * Search Metro * Follow us The government could soon be able to access everyone’s browsing history [ashitha-nagesh-e1442239358900.jpg?crop=20px%2C0px%2C509px%2C509px& ;resize=150%2C150&quality=80&strip=all&w=40&h=40] Ashitha Nagesh for Metro.co.ukFriday 30 Oct 2015 11:42 am The government could soon be able to see everyone's browsing history (Picture: Getty Images/Metro) Continuing its Big Brother impersonation, the government is proposing a bill to allow them to access the internet history of everyone in the country. Communications companies would be legally required to retain all of their customers’ browsing histories for 12 months, in case the police or security agencies want to access them. Senior police officers have been lobbying the government to force companies to retain the data, so they can seize all the details of a website visited, or any searches made, by anyone in the UK. The new bill will be announced by Theresa May next Wednesday in the House of Commons. The government and security forces want to revive measures that were set out in the shelved Communications Data Bill – aka the snooper’s charter. It was blocked by the Lib Dems during the coalition government because it was seen as an intrusion into privacy. CHESHUNT, ENGLAND - JULY 17: PC Kris Seward shows the Prime Minister David Cameron the mobile device as he visits community police in Hertfordshire on July 17, 2013 in Cheshunt, England. The Prime Minister observed the new community police crime prevention initiatives including targeted CCTV and a new PC based mobile device. (Photo by Paul Rogers - WPA Pool/Getty Images) (Picture: Getty Images) Tory MP David Davis told The Times: ‘It’s extraordinary they’re asking for this again, they are overreaching and there is no proven need to retain such data for a year.’ And Edward Snowden took to Twitter to criticise the UK government’s introduction of ‘backdoors’ – a ‘mechanism to provide secret access to otherwise confidential communications’. ‘Traditional, effective surveillance means targeting suspects,’ he added. ‘Not a population. Not a technology. Not a service. The suspect.’ A company cannot provide special access to a one government without losing access to the markets of all others. Work for one, work for all. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 28, 2015 But the police claim they are not looking for anything more than what they can already access through phone records. ‘We want to police by consent, and we want to ensure that privacy safeguards are in place,’ Richard Berry, the National Police Chiefs’ Council spokesman said. ‘But we need to balance this with the needs of the vulnerable and the victims. MORE: Facebook now gives you a warning if the government is spying on you MORE: A spy agency is offering $1m to anyone who can hack the new iOS ‘We essentially need the ‘who, where, when and what’ of any communication – who initiated it, where were they and when did it happen. ‘And a little bit of the ‘what’ – were they on Facebook, or a banking site, or an illegal child-abuse image-sharing website?’ Officers would need to apply for judicial approval to access the content of the websites. 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