Is the Surveillance State being resurrected? Assessing whether privacy is protected when surveillance policy is developed
April is becoming a month of resurrections. The last blog referred to the Members of an Information Rights Tribunal resurrecting the corpse of Durant which then bit them; they were thus turned into zombies and issued a Decision that I will politely call “provocative and novel”. Last month Theresa May resurrected the data retention ambitions of GCHQ so that all contact details, dates and times of all electronic communications between all individuals in the UK are retained for a year or




