Information Age reports: The Home Secretary told MPs today that the Communications Capability Development Programme simply maintains the status quo in the face of technological progress Theresa May, the Home Secretary, appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee today to answer questions on the government’s proposed changes to legislation to allow enforcement agencies track and [...]
Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: Ministers are planning a shakeup of the law on the use of confidential personal data to make it far easier for government and public-sector organisations to share confidential information supplied by the public. Proposals to be published next month by the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, are expected to [...]
Gus Hosein writes for Privacy International: It is an increasingly common tactic of governments to say very little about a proposed policy, wait for opponents to start speaking publicly about it and then seize gleefully upon any error, accusing their opponents of peddling ‘myths’. This allows officials to spend more time talking about what the [...]
David Leppard writes in the Sunday Times about Charles Farr, who he described as ‘the Home Office’s top “securocrat”‘: It’s no secret in Whitehall that the grandiosely titled communications capabilities development programme was Farr’s “policy baby”. In fact, it was a rehash of an earlier attempt by Farr in 2009 to persuade the then Labour [...]
Mark Ward reports for the BBC: Government proposals to extend powers to watch what people do online would create a “nation of suspects”, said MP David Davis. The former shadow home secretary said the government should be restricting surveillance, not trying to extend it. Powers granted to police that let them see personal data without [...]
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