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Debate Postponed On UK RIP Act Amendment

Posted by timothy on from the keep-delaying-please dept.

Harry Morgan writes: " The UK Government has postponed debate on, The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data: Additional Public Authorities) Order 2002 which is their attempt to expand the number of organisations entitled to demand communications data under the original RIP act, until Tuesday 18th June. For anyone who feels strongly about this, now is the time to do something about it. You can fax your Member of Parliament from stand.org.uk a site which gives comprehensive information about the order and the original act. "

2 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. I supprt this by 91degrees · · Score: 1, Troll

    Investigative organisations like the NHS and GPO cannot function unless there is a supply of valid useable data. People hiding this sort of data will prevent them from operating.

    We need a law like this to prevent terrorists from being able to hide from these groups.

  2. Re:Blair and his cronies by Ngwenya · · Score: 0, Troll

    The parallels which can be drawn against Blair vs Hitler and Blair vs Saddam are astounding.... Compare many of Blair's election speeches to translations of Hitler's. Compare his delivery style to that of Hitler's. Compare his appointment styles with that of Saddam.

    I can rant all day and night.

    Yes, you could - but it would still be a bunch of paranoid right-wing shite. So thank you for curtailing your flamebait where you did.

    Lest anyone get confused - this has got fuck all to do with the elected gorvernment of the UK. By and large such measures are proposed and driven by the civil service bureaucracy. More civil servants to snoop == bigger budgets == more status in the Whitehall machinery.

    If we had a Conservative government we would have the same proposals. If we had a Lib Dem one, we'd get the same. Try and get this through your (collective) heads - 90% of all government policies would be done in any case.

    Oh, and atcurtis - there's a general rule in netiquette about bringing in "Hitler and the Nazis" - don't do it. Repeating suburban myths plucked from the xenopobic little hate sheets like the Daily Mail or Telegraph is not a good substiture for critical thinking.

    Anyway - write to your MP. It's not much, but governments will occasionally back down when legislation looks "controversial" In other words, there are no votes to be gained by this spook sponsored stuff, but there are plenty to be lost by civil libertarians who voted for Labour last time. Raise enough of a stink, and suddenly this bill will run out of parliamentary time, or some new, more "important", legislation will take its place.

    But don't sit on your arse and complain to slashdot. It's got bugger all electoral power in the UK.

    --Ng