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Published on: 04/04/2017 10:16 AMReported by: roving-eye
The Home Office is rushing through mass surveillance powers under the Investigatory Powers Act.
What are they up to? They're doing their best to make sure we don’t understand the implications by laying out their plans in FIVE separate Codes of Practice that run to over 400 pages of dense legal text.
Despite their enormous significance, the Government consultation doesn't give the public any proper explanation of what's in these huge documents. Just fifteen paragraphs 'explains' the content of the five documents they're consulting on meaning it's absolutely impossible to understand what the Codes really mean for surveillance and our privacy.
If you want to email the Home Office to tell them to fix their consultation, the consultation deadline is Thursday 6 April at 11:45pm.
If you do email them. please tell the Home Office they must:
(a) Publish full details explaining the Codes of Practice and
(b) Re-run the consultation to make sure lawyers, civil society, the public, and other interested groups can suggest how to tighten the codes up
Even more worrying, the Codes of Practice the government are now proposing have been altered since the Home Secretary showed them in draft to Parliament. But there's been no guidance published on what's changed or why. A cursory glance, though, shows that strict obligations which were originally to be given to the agencies have given way to more general guidance, by changing words like 'must' to 'may'.
To email the Home Office to tell them they need to do a re-think on their consultation:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/camp...t-consultation
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These kind of tactics usually mean just one thing. That the new 'laws' they've created will have stripped even more of our human rights away, leaving the door open for abuse from those we think are there to protect us.
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The Government has passed a bill through Parliament extending the Investigative Agencies powers last month. It is said that the Government will be able to read every computer's browsing history and eventually every e-mail, which will be made available for Security and Marketing companies. It is difficult to understand how this will benefit anyone - since it has to be proved who was using the computer at any one time.
There are twenty seven security agencies in the USA, many of whom claim to be able to read all emails from all over the country. Good luck to them - they would need a huge number of manpower and many hours to spare. How has this claimed knowledge benefitted the USA? Well, either there have been no terrorist attacks or the USA's system of detection is useless!
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