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Daily Dashboard | Snooper's Charter could set global precedent, critics maintain Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Critics have argued that the U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Act could inspire similar invasive surveillance measures in other countries, MIT Technology Review reports. "Britain’s broad new authority would set a dramatic precedent, says Danny O’Brien, international director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation," the report states. "Companies would be forced to conduct surveillance or break the privacy protections of devices and services, and they would be compelled to keep those steps secret." He added that “the idea that you can own and control your own device ceases to become a possibility” should the government be allowed to "re-engineer" tools to remove privacy protection. "But if the British government could force companies to remain silent in these cases, it would likely prevent the kind of public debate that occurred in the U.S. after the FBI tried to compel Apple in 2016 to write code that would crack open an encrypted iPhone," the report adds.
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