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Who's watching your internet activity?

Internet firms will have to store details of people's online activity for 12 months under a new surveillance law.
The move is included in the government's draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
The government promises strict safeguards, including a ban on councils getting people's internet records and a new offence of misusing data but they are also facing calls for judges to have to give permission for digital records to be accessed.
Victoria Derbyshire host Joanna Gosling discussed the issue with Anthony Glees from the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham; French journalist Catherine Guilyardi; Emily Taylor, an internet governance expert and Alan McQuillan, a former Assistant Chief Constable with the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

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