"On Thursday 10 July the Coalition Government (with support from
the Opposition) published draft emergency legislation, the Data Retention and
Investigatory Powers Bill (“DRIP”). The Bill was posited as doing no more than
extending the data retention powers already in force under the EU Data
Retention Directive, which was recently ruled incompatible with European human
rights law by the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union
(CJEU) in the joined cases brought by Digital Rights Ireland (C-293/12) and
Seitlinger and Others (C-594/12) handed down on 8 April 2014.
In introducing the Bill to Parliament, the Home Secretary framed
the legislation as a response to the CJEU’s decision on data retention, and as
essential to preserve current levels of access to communications data by law
enforcement and security services. The government has maintained that the Bill
does not contain new powers.
On our analysis, this position is false. In fact, the Bill
proposes to extend investigatory powers considerably, increasing the British
government’s capabilities to access both communications data and content. The
Bill will increase surveillance powers by authorising the government to; ..."
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