Misleading data protection statements and another reason for the emergency data retention law?
14 July 2014
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I have just read the Explanatory Notes and the clauses in “The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers (DRIP) Bill” which is being rushed through Parliament this week. According to Ministers, the Bill is primarily to allow the national security agencies and the police continued access to communications data and the content of communications because the European Court of Justice struck out the Data Retention Directive (on the grounds that the Directive provisions facilitated mass indiscriminate surveillance). According to Ministers, the Bill is
