The draft Communications Data Bill is of great concern, not primarily because it lacks controls over who can access private data – these will be added – but because it creates a privacy-destroying surveillance resource which is certain to be abused in the future – both by government agencies and by illegal intruders. Read more in my article about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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