New snooping laws will hand sweeping powers to EVERY police force to hack into phones and check web browser histories

• Revised spying laws laid in Parliament today after fierce criticism of draft
• Three separate committees made almost 130 proposals for changes
• Encryption u-turn follows claim it would undermine banking and shopping
• The PM warned against leaving terro
  rists and jihadis a safe space online.
• New spying laws creating sweeping powers for the police to access anyone's web browser history and break into their phones have been handed to MPs.
  A new draft of proposed laws was presented to Parliament this afternoon after three inquiries made scores of recommendations for changes and one blasted the original as rushed and flawed.
  Among the changes in the re-written bill are expanded powers to break into phones and computers if there is a 'threat to life' and enhanced rules on allowing police and security service access to parts of web browser histories.
  The new bill does include concessions on encryption of messages and the powers to make companies such as Apple and Google decode messages will only apply 'where practicable'.
  

  Home Secretary Theresa May, pictured in Downing Street today, will not press ahead with new laws which could have required tech firms to open up encryption to the police and security services
  Home Secretary Theresa May is understood to want the backing of MPs for the proposed new laws by the summer. The Home Office today said the legislation had to become law this year because existing laws will expire.
  Mrs May said: 'Terrorists and criminals are operating online and we need to ensure the police and security services can keep pace with the modern world and continue to protect the British public from the many serious threats we face.' 
  Under the changes revealed today: 
  • Police will be given access to web browsing records in specific crime investigations. In the first draft this was limited to illegal websites and communications services. The data will include websites visited but not pages viewed. 
  • So-called 'internet connection records', which is another form of browsing data, will also be accessible by security services. It shows which website a device connected to but not the details of each page on that site. 
  • Where the authorities declare there is a 'threat to life', the ability of the security services and police to carry out remote hacking is expanded.
  • The draft bill will require internet companies to store details of a person's every internet visit, text message and phone call for up to 12 months. 
  Privacy campaigners have been deeply critical of the legislation and the row comes as US courts wrestle with whether Apple can be ordered to unlock the iPhone of a terrorist who killed 14 people at a shooting in California last year. 
  The new laws are meant to clarify legislation and make clear what powers the security services have in the wake of scandals triggered.