BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
IMPACT OF COMPUTERS ON WORK ENVIRONMENTS
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Question
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Phone companies and internet service providers are required to keep copies of users’ emails and browsing histories for 12 months.
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The police have no right to look at private browsing histories.
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Phone companies and internet service providers are required to keep copies of users’ emails and browsing histories forever
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The security services have no right to look at phone records.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It makes provision for the retention of internet connection records for law enforcement to identify the communications service to which a device has connected. This will restore capabilities that have been lost as a result of changes in the way people communicate.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 provides that communications service providers may be required by the Secretary of State to retain communications data, for up to 12 months, where it is considered necessary and proportionate to do so and where that decision has been approved by a Judicial Commissioner.
Detailed explanation-3: -(3)The power to make regulations under subsection (1) includes power to make such modifications in any enactment (including this Act) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of a person becoming, or ceasing to be, a relevant public authority because of regulations under that subsection.