*Pic: Montage of Edward Snowden and UKHome Secretary Theresa May from this website here
A computer scientist has created a livestream of all the websites he’s visiting — including those not safe for work — to show what the government’s proposed new surveillance legislation could mean for UK citizens.
The openly published browsing history of Brett Lempereur, a senior lecturer in computing at Liverpool John Moores University, shows the time, device used, and websites he has visited. All this data would be collected by ISPs and made available to police and security services if new surveillance laws are passed.
A glance at the page showed him visit Gmail, Google Hangouts, YouTube, Google APIs, GitHub, Facebook, and much more.
The website hosting the data pulls in the last 50 websites he has visited from all of his computers running Chrome — it isn’t available for websites visited on mobile phones at present.
“This is an attempt to show the amount of information that will be available about you without and with a warrant if the new Investigatory Powers Bill comes into force in its current form,” Lempereur wrote on his website.
The new legislation, if passed into law, would require internet service providers and mobile phone companies to collect the information — known as metadata — of all users for up to 12 months.
