'Advanced Democracy' - Turkey’s Erdogan signs law to have users’ browsing history stored for 2 years.

The 'evil' Djinn is out of the bottle it seems.

'Advanced Democracy' - Turkey’s Erdogan signs law to have users’ browsing history stored for 2 years.(RT).

The Turkish President has further tightened government control of the internet as he approved a law that lets the country’s telecoms authority block sites as it deems necessary and forces hosting providers to store users’ browsing history for two years.

Following the steps taken by the country’s Parliament – which passed this same law on Monday – Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday also ratified the law for the sake of “national security”and “public order and the prevention of crimes".

The new law essentially expands the legislation passed in February that allowed the authorities to block access to web pages without a prior court order. Unlike this recently passed law, the previous legislation limited those powers to cases of privacy violations. That move was still protested by an angry public that slammed the government for cracking down on freedom of speech in the country.

This time, Erdogan let the telecoms authority Telecommunication Transmission Directorate (TIB), headed by a former intelligence official, to monitor internet users, block websites and their content without a court order.

The new law stipulates that service providers must either block the website or remove the content within four hours. The head of the directorate will have to seek a legal framework only after shutting down the website.

Moreover, the TİB is obliged to store the browsing history of all web users and the entire web traffic, so that in case of a criminal investigation and a court order, the necessary information could be quickly handed over to relevant bodies.

This means the TIB will be storing online communications – and information on which websites internet users visited – for two years.

“Everyone could be subject to this interception from administrative bodies without a judicial order. Without a law that defines the conditions of storage, the limits of storage and the purpose of storage, it is more than problematic,” a foreign diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News on Thursday.Hmmm.....STASI...'Islamic style'