UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill: Loopholes Within Loopholes Will Lead to Unbridled Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Investigatory Powers Bill, as written, is so vague as to permit a vast range of surveillance actions, with profoundly insufficient oversight or insight into what Britain’s intelligence, military and police intend to do with their powers. It is, in effect, a carefully-crafted loophole wide enough to drive all of existing mass surveillance practice through.
Or, in the words of Richard Clayton, Director of the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre at the University of Cambridge, in his submissions to the committee:
“the present bill forbids almost nothing ... and hides radical new capabilities behind pages of obscuring detail.”
The bill is 192 pages long, excluding over 60 pages of explanatory notes. Our comments to the committee focused on just one aspect of the bill, what they call “equipment interference.” " 'via Blog this'
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