Master spy behind Snoopers’ Charter wants to gag leakers, journalists | Ars Technica UK: "Hancock, these days, is the government's cheerleader for the Digital Economy Bill—which is currently winging its way with ease through parliament. However, controversial provisions within Part 5 of the draft law fail to offer any safeguards for plans to share citizen data more widely. And everyone from privacy campaigners to doctors are deeply concerned about the government's plans.
The draft law is name-checked a number of times in the Law Commission's Protection of Official Data review, where it explores the wobbly "legislative landscape" on personal information disclosure offences in the UK. "The provisions contained in the Digital Economy Bill do not streamline the legislative landscape, but rather add to it. From a theoretical perspective the legislative landscape looks irrational, dispersed, and lacking in uniformity," it said.
It went on to discuss the "practical implications" by arguing that "the potential for the offences to overlap is likely to be increased when the Digital Economy Bill receives the Royal Assent," seemingly in a clear acknowledgement that more leaks of sensitive government information will take place.
Notably, the Law Commission failed to once mention the EU's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, which Hancock has said will be implemented in full in 2018—in part to allow online businesses to continue to transfer data between the UK and the soon-to-be 27-member state bloc." 'via Blog this'
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