Liberal Democrats and civil liberties campaigners have welcomed new measures requiring internet providers to keep information that identifies on-line users, but said it mustn’t be considered a means of restoring the “snooper’s charter”.

The brand new law may also permit law enforcement to compel web companies to deliver information revealing who’s using smartphone or a computer at any specific time.

“It’s great news the Home Office has finally got round to creating suggestions on this after being repeatedly requested by Nick Clegg. This really is just the sort of matter that we must take on actions, instead of proposing an unworkable, unnecessary and disproportionate snooper’s charter. There’s totally no chance of such illiberal bill. It is dead and buried.”

The draft communications information bill would have required internet providers to save information monitoring users’ online activity for 12 months and allow it to be accessible to the security and authorities services.

The joint parliamentary committee that firmly criticised the “snooper’s charter” advocated linking subscribers’ information to IP addresses. The MPs and peers said the information would ensure it is possible to track who was using a specific IP address at a specified point of time.

Different devices may us the exact same addresses at different times. As such, the authorities battle to establish a specific person, as well as a connection between something that’s occurred online, including obtaining child abuse pictures.

“Now this technical change is ok, it is reasonable, but the home secretary has said in effect that she views it as a route back into the full snooper’s charter and, honestly, I believe she is going to get real problem.”

May supported the new conditions would be contained in an anti- security and terrorism bill expected to be released on Wednesday.

The bill also includes developments to the terrorism prevention and investigation measures which are accustomed to track terror suspects in Britain, for example, debut of a power to order a suspect to reside in a different section of the state. The brink of evidence required to exercise such measures will likely be increased, as well as the bill will even confirm a more narrow definition of terrorism in an attempt to ensure innocent folks are not targeted by the newest powers.

May said the bill was needed to counter the “increased risk” Britain faces.

The National Crime Agency … will still not have the ability to identify everybody who’s getting prohibited content on the web.”