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Digital Surveillance: Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers. Open Rights Group, April 2013, pp. 68.

01 August 2013

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The May 2013 Queen’s speech announced that the Communications Data Bill, more popularly-known as the Snoopers’ Charter, which would allow state monitoring of everyone’s email, internet usage and text messages, would be dropped. However, it also left open the possibility for legislation to be introduced in the future that would have the same aim, giving ongoing relevance to this report by the Open Rights Group. It includes chapters on the history of state surveillance and privacy; the current legislative situation; key surveillance technologies and how they work; why there is a lack of “sensible and balanced discussion of surveillance laws”; and on “how more privacy-friendly surveillance policy could work”.

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/digital-surveillance

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