Nick Clegg: it’s still no to a snooper’s charter

From the BBC:

Nick Clegg has rejected calls from three former home secretaries to revive plans for more data monitoring powers, after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby.

The deputy PM warned the cross-party group against “knee jerk” reactions to difficult events.

He said proposals to store all website visits on a database were neither “proportionate nor workable”.

A bill allowing the monitoring of all UK citizens’ internet use was dropped after Liberal Democrat opposition…

He added: “These former home secretaries will know from their own experience the dangers of knee-jerk reactions, over-the-top reactions, to the difficult events we encounter in this country.”