Encyrption ban banished from draft UK surveillance bill

A threatened ban on encryption has been banished from a draft bill on surveillance powers in the U.K. -- but the government plans to explicitly allow bulk surveillance of Internet traffic by security and intelligence agencies.U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May began by listing the things the draft bill did not contain as she introduced it in Parliament on Wednesday."It will not include powers to force U.K. companies to capture and retain third-party Internet traffic from companies based overseas. I