Archive for paul strasburger
Three cheers for Lib Dem peer Paul Strasburger
From The Guardian: The home secretary, Theresa May, has been told by peers and MPs that her £1.8bn internet monitoring proposals will be a “honeypot for hackers and criminals around the world” and that she must bring in prison sentences for those who hack databases… A peers and MPs on the joint committee [looking at the [...]
Paul Strasburger makes it 16 Lib Dem peers on Twitter
Liberal Democrat peer (and key man in the future of the Draft Communications Data Bill) Paul Strasburger has become the sixteenth Liberal Democrat peer on Twitter. You can follow them all in one place via this Twitter list that I curate, and don’t forget also the lists for Lib Dem MPs and Lib Dem council [...]
Draft Communications Data Bill: initial Liberal Democrat reactions
Looking round the blogs this evening, these are the responses I’ve found so far to today’s publication of the Draft Communications Data Bill, all of which are well worth reading in full: CCDP First impressions: A bill with too few safeguards – Zoe O’Connell Clause 1 which places the obligations on ISPs to collect data [...]
Online monitoring: the good and the bad news today
The government’s proposals for extending online monitoring, published today, are not a happy read. There have been some welcome, but relatively small, changes from what Theresa May was pushing for earlier in the year, such as the concession that any expanded monitoring powers will not be available to local councils, who were at the forefront [...]
