RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill: negligible improvement in privacy protection
7 March 2011
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The “Protection of Freedoms Bill” has a wholly misleading title; the legislation simply does not do what it says on the tin. The CCTV provisions (see blog of 16/2/2011) have more to do with efficient surveillance rather than privacy protection, and in my last blog (3/3/2011), I reviewed the Information Commissioner’s concerns re the use of personal data in DNA profiling or in vetting. For completeness, this blog addresses the additional privacy protection afforded by the proposed changes to the
