Islamic state is becoming more attract to jihadist....U.K. Will Propose Terror Law on Internet User Data as Risks Grow.



The U.K. government will introduce legislation that will require Internet companies to provide user data to authorities to help identify potential terrorists and criminals as part of new wide-ranging security powers.

“The terrorism legislation that we’re going to be introducing will cover a number of issues because we’ve been looking at what further capabilities we need to be able to deal with the increased threat,” Home Secretary Theresa May said in an interview on the BBC’s “The Andrew Marr Show” in London yesterday.

[b]Under May’s plans, Internet-service providers will have to retain information on Internet Protocol addresses -- a number that identifies individual computer devices -- and supply it to security services on request to help them track users’ activities. Her comments came as the head of London’s Metropolitan Police Service appeared on the same television program saying authorities had foiled as many as five terror attacks in 2014, compared with an average of one in each of the past few years.

“There are a number of issues that the counter-terrorism legislation will cover,” May said. “One of them is this issue of IP addresses. This is a step, but it doesn’t go all the way to ensuring that we can identify all the people we will need to.”

In August, the U.K. raised its terror threat to “severe,” the second-highest level, with Prime Minister David Cameron saying the battle against Islamic extremism is a “generational struggle” that will probably last decades.

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May’s proposals are the latest effort by officials concerned about the Internet’s role in luring hundreds of Britons to join Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq and the potential threat they pose if they return. This month, the director of the U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, said technology companies such as Facebook Inc. (FB) and Twitter Inc. (TWTR) were “in denial” about their role in spreading terrorism.[/b]
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In July, the U.K. government pushed emergency legislation through Parliament to ensure companies kept e-mail, text and phone-call data for a year to help law-enforcement agencies.

A previous, broader, attempt by May to allow security services to access records of website visits and social-media messaging as part of the Communications Data Bill -- nicknamed the “Snooper’s Charter” -- was killed off in 2013 owing to concerns about civil liberties. The Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in Cameron’s coalition government, which opposed that legislation, welcomed May’s proposal on IP addresses.

‘Snooper’s Charter’

“This is exactly the kind of thing that we need to take action on, rather than proposing an unnecessary, unworkable and disproportionate Snooper’s Charter,” a LibDem spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “There is absolutely no chance of that illiberal bill coming back under the coalition government –- it’s dead and buried.”

An estimated 500 Britons have traveled to fight with Islamic State, amid suspicions that some may return to plan terrorist attacks in Britain in retaliation for U.K. airstrikes on the militants. Officials are also concerned about Britons’ becoming radicalized by ideology espoused by extremists via the Internet.



[b]New powers allow police to pinpoint computers used by terrorists and child abusers

NEW powers will allow police to pinpoint the location of computers used by terrorists and child abusers.

By: Caroline Wheeler and Jon CoatesPublished: Sun, November 23, 2014
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The Home Secretary will annouce measures to force ISPs to keep records for a year
Home Secretary Theresa May will announce measures, to be included in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to keep details for a year that can be used in criminal inquiries.

Until now ISPs have not had to keep logs of which devices use specific Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the codes that identify computers online.

The new law will require ISPs to keep records of the use of IP addresses, making it easier for the police to match the addresses to individuals.

The proposed measures would reduce the risk of terrorism by improving the ability of the police and other agencies to identify terror suspects who may be communicating with each other via the internet.[/b]

It would also help to identify and prosecute organised criminals, cyber bullies and computer hackers.

Mrs May said: “The Bill provides the opportunity to resolve the very real problems that exist around IP resolution and is a step towards bridging the overall communications data capability gap.”

However, Mrs May reiterated her support for the so-called Snoopers’ Charter that would give law enforcement agencies the power to access and store details of an individual’s online activity to see which websites they have been accessing.

It is a matter of national security and we must keep on making the case for the Communications Bill
Theresa May
“It is a matter of national security and we must keep on making the case for the Communications Data Bill,” she insisted.

The announcement of these new powers comes just weeks after a feud erupted between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Mrs May, who accused the Lib Dems of putting children’s lives at risk by opposing the Bill.

In a speech to the Conservative Party Conference last month in Birmingham, Mrs May said over a six month period the National Crime Agency estimated it dropped at least 20 cases due to missing communications data.

She said 13 were “threat-tolife cases in which a child was judged to be at risk of imminent harm”. Mrs May said: “The solution to this crisis of national security was the Communications Data Bill. But two years ago, it was torpedoed by the Liberal Democrats.”

In response Mr Clegg, who called the row a “new low” for the Coalition, said the NCA had been forced to drop some of the cases because IP addresses were not properly matched to individual mobile devices.

He called for the loophole to be shut and accused the Home Office of dragging its feet. Last night the Lib Dems welcomed the new powers, as they declared the Snoopers’ Charter “dead and buried”.

A party spokesman said: “This is exactly the kind of thing that we need, rather than proposing an unnecessary, unworkable and disproportionate Snoopers’ Charter.

“There is absolutely no chance of that illiberal Bill coming back under the Coalition Government. It’s dead and buried."

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David Cameron: I will ban British jihadists who fight for Isil in Syria and Iraq for two years
The Prime Minister unveiled a raft of new anti-terror laws including powers to strip teenage jihadists of their passports and bar airlines from landing in the UK if they fail to provide passenger information

British jihadists who fight for Isil in Syria and Iraq will be barred from returning to this country for at least two years to prevent terror attacks, David Cameron has announced.
The Prime Minister has unveiled a raft of new anti-terror laws including powers to strip teenage jihadists of their passports and bar airlines from landing in the UK if they fail to provide passenger information.
Mr Cameron made the announcement in an address to the Australian Parliament in which he said Britain had to take action to deal with the threat posed by “foreign fighters planning attacks against our people”.
More than 500 Britons have travelled to Iraq and Syria to take up arms with Isil, and around half of them are thought to have returned to Britain. More than 200 people have been arrested for terror threats in the past year alone.
Under new “temporary exclusion orders”, British fighters in Syria and Iraq will be barred from returning to this country unless they submit to strict conditions.

[b]The orders, which will be signed off from the Home Secretary, would be made on the basis of “reasonable suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity”. Suspected terrorists will have their passports cancelled and be put on a “no fly list” to prevent them from returning.
Those that repeatedly try to return to Britain will be interviewed by police and either face prosecution, tough restrictions on their movements or be forced to attend de-radicalisation programmes.
It is thought that officers could travel abroad to interview suspected jihadists and determine whether they are to be banned from returning to the UK.
They will be subjected to bail-like conditions and required to attend regular interviews with police and notify the authorities of any changes in their address or contact from extremists.
The orders will last for up to two years, and can be renewed again at the end of that period. Those that attempt to return to Britain in secret will face a five year jail term under a new criminal offence.[/b]
The measure is likely to prove controversial. When Mr Cameron first raised the prospect of barring British jihadists from returning to the UK in August Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General, said it was likely to be a “non starter”.