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UK: Information Commissioner's response to Home Affairs Select Committee report "A Surveillance Society?"

01 December 2008

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A Surveillance Society?: Information Commissioner’s Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2007–08 (pdf).

Background: A Surveillance Society?: The Government reply to the report from the Home affairs Committee (pdf).

See: Government stands by data sharing: The Home Office has said that joining up existing government systems reduces the need for big new databases (link)

Background: Report on the "Surveillance society" by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: Report: Vol 1 (1.5 MB, pdf) Evidence Vol 2 (1.6 MB, pdf).

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