Source: Bernard Hibbitts, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
UK government delays telecommunications database bill: reports
Critics - including some inside the government - have already assailed the proposed measure as an Orwellian infringement [Independent report] on privacy and civil liberties. Last month, the office of Lord Carlile, the Information Commissioner, took the extraordinary step [press release, PDF] of calling the bill a "step too far for the British way of life." Also in October, outgoing UK Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald warned against the expansion of government power in gathering intelligence [JURIST report] and prosecuting suspected terrorists, saying that present decisions about how the government should use technology to protect security are likely to be permanent. Recent high-profile news stories about losses of data by British government official and agencies [Independent report] have heightened concerns over the legislation.
Source: Bernard Hibbitts, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
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