Posts Tagged ‘spying’
TL;DR The UK ‘snoopers charter’ is back in the form of the Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB [pdf]). As with previous efforts it’s not just trying to provide a more robust legal framework for ongoing spying, but also trying to extend spying powers to other agencies. The police might see this as a way to solve crime more […]
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Tags: intercept, investigatory powers bill, IPB, police, SIGINT, snoopers charter, spy, spying, telco
Dear Mr Soames, Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill I’m pretty sure you’ll toe the party line on this one, but if I don’t write to you then you don’t know about objection from (at least one of) your constituents. I am outraged by this legislation being pushed through in the manner that it is. […]
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Tags: data retention, DRIP, privacy, spying
I don’t need to write extensively here about the dangers of regulatory capture by corporate interests. Larry Lessig already wrote ‘One Way Forward‘, and he does a far better job than I ever could. My friend Robert Dunne recently made an astute observation in the wake of the PRISM scandal: Access to material from the […]
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Tags: Beltway bandits, bribery, corruption, FISA, Larry Lessig, one way forward, PRISM, regulatory capture, ruling party, SIGINT, spying