Cybersecurity
U.K. Spying Law Needs More Privacy Rules, Parliament Group Says
- Bill gives too much bulk access to user information, data
- Current draft suffers from lack of time and preparation
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The U.K.’s proposed spying law doesn’t offer enough privacy protection and gives intelligence agencies too much bulk access to personal information, according to the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, one of several bodies scrutinizing the proposed bill.
While the committee supports authorities’ investigatory powers in Internet and phone communications, the current draft “appears to have suffered from a lack of sufficient time and preparation,” it said in a statement Tuesday.