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UK: DRIPA: Terrorism laws watchdog issues warning over security services scrutiny

17 July 2014

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UK: DRIPA: Terrorism laws watchdog issues warning over security services scrutiny - David Anderson says privacy and civil liberties board that is planned to replace his job must have unfettered access (Guardian, link):

"The emergency Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) requires internet and phone companies including US-based firms such as Google to store all personal communications data for 12 months so it can be accessed by police and security services. The new law has an expiry date of December 2016. This week's parliamentary debates demonstrated that there is now widespread consensus that the main surveillance law, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa), is a "broken and bleeding sore", as one ex-Home Office minister put it, and urgently needs replacing."

UK's Drip law: cynical, misleading and an affront to democracy: Demonstrating the lack of knowledgeable leadership and the failure to engage in democratic debate, this 'data retention' surveillance law seeds distrust (Guardian, link)

See: DRIP Act 2014 as adopted (pdf)

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