tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post9170276348429942905..comments2023-11-14T08:19:54.657+00:00Comments on DMossEsq: Communications Data Bill? UnnecessaryDavid Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-76888010133063964622013-07-07T12:10:49.686+01:002013-07-07T12:10:49.686+01:00Look at those Telegraph headlines – the Communicat...Look at those <i>Telegraph</i> headlines – the Communications Data Bill is being promoted as a protection against terrorism. A protection which, Messrs Moore and Nelson tell us, we already have and we would be naïve not to realise we have. My point stands.<br /><br />So does yours, of course. Like the earlier Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the Communications Data Bill seeks to give sales ledger clerks in the town hall a rôle for which they are unfitted. What do they know about the laws of evidence and the related procedures?<br /><br />As you say, that crosses the boundary between the public and the personal. Moore and Nelson have already sold the pass. If surveillance is in the interests of the public, it would be naïve of us to imagine that it isn't undertaken.<br /><br />They ignore <a href="http://www.dmossesq.com/2013/06/is-data-sharing-between-consenting.html" rel="nofollow">Francis Maude</a>, among others, who believes that the laws prohibiting data-sharing are myths, which he promises to bust, so that our lot can be improved by unfettered data-sharing.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-52676328059467946942013-07-07T09:53:16.906+01:002013-07-07T09:53:16.906+01:00The ball, as you put it, is not security services&...The ball, as you put it, is not security services' use of these methods but the #CDB aims to extend their use to policing and government dept data sharing generally. The objective is to boost policing and institutional use of surveillancd/data mining by using terrorism as the lever. It is normalisation of what should be a security service tool protecting state critical interests, into in every area of our interaction with state and law. Everyday analysis of communications data: policing of private communications as if it were open behaviour on the street, but this is not the street, this is our private behaviour they want to have open access to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com