Submitted on Friday 11th November 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Do not pass the Investigatory Powers Bill
We must protect our right to freedom of speech, expression, and privacy as granted to us by the United Nations. This bill is vaguely worded, overreaching, and will put more lives in danger than it saves.
Compelling evidence as to the efficacy of the mass surveillance was presented to Joint Committee on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill by US intelligence officer turned whistleblower, William Binney, in light of the US experience. Aside from the obvious intrusion into the private lives of citizens, he warned MPs that increasing the mass surveillance powers of intelligence agencies ‘costs lives, and has cost lives in Britain because it inundates analysts with too much data.’
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