ICO evidence identifies data protection concerns over Freedoms Bill
3 March 2011
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The Information Commissioner (ICO) has just published a critique of the Home Office’s Freedoms Bill, which is being sold to the public as reining-in New Labour’s surveillance state. This blog reports on this critique (for a copy, see references). Although there is general applause for the fact that the Government has recognised that there has been excessive intrusion into privacy, the ICO’s analysis points to a number of serious deficiencies. I report most of these difficulties mainly in the Commissioner’s
