The Government is proposing the mass collection and storage of “communications data” for the entire population. Records of all our e-mail, text, phone calls and web browsing would be collected and stored by private companies.
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Here in the UK it’s a fundamental constitutional principle that no-one is above the law – including the Government. But as feared last week’s Queen’s Speech featured the ironically-titled Justice and Security Bill, which seeks to change all that. This is no longer just a Green Paper. We need your support for our For Their Eyes Only campaign more than ever.
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Today Liberty responded with dismay as plans for a new Snooper’s Charter and Secret Courts were included in this year’s Queen’s Speech. But it welcomed the proposed...
The very day after we celebrated World Press Freedom Day, Article 10 of the Human Rights Act has once more hit the headlines – and again for all the right reasons.
Malcolm Calver, a councillor in Wales, had been found to have breached the code of conduct for local government by a standards watchdog. His ...