Media Lens Message Board: The Communications Data Bill Is ...

--Previous Message-- : 'Just about everyone from the London Internet : Exchange (Linx) to the Law Society is : opposed to the "snooper's charter" : on the grounds of privacy. But let's forget : that core issue for a moment and focus on : the bill's origin, which happens to be the : seething breast of a man named Charles Farr, : formerly of MI6, now the head of the office : for security and counterterrorism at the : Home Office. : : The home secretary, Theresa May, promoted : the bill, but it is Farr's baby and, in : effect, is simply a version of the vast : data-gathering machine that he conceived in : the interception modernisation programme : under Labour. That this anonymous, unelected : agency man persists with the creepy agenda : should be enough to alert even the most : complacent to its dangers.' : : : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/09/henry-porter-too-much-government-snooping :

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