Yahoo recently become the latest company to join Twitter, Facebook and Google for promising to alert users suspected of being spied on by state-sponsored actors. However "UK ministers want to make it a criminal offence for tech firms to warn users of requests for access to their communication data made by security organizations such as MI5, MI6 and GCHQ (the Government Communications Headquarters)," TechSpot reports. The controversial Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the snooper's charter, was unveiled by home secretary Theresa May in November. Part of the proposed legislation would require tech firms to store users' data for up to twelve months, including a record of every internet site visited, and allow government agencies unfettered access to the data.
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