Submitted on Monday 2nd April 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Petition against email, web, text and call monitoring plan by the government
The signatories in this petition believe the plans to enact a new bill enabling the government to monitor all correspondence of normal everyday citizens of the UK to be a breach of our privacy and civil liberties. Citizens should be able to email, text, call and visit websites of their choice without fear of recrimination by the government. We agree that there are elements in society that need to be monitored, but the vast majority of the UK does not need to be under this type of Orwellian government structure. We would like the government to not impose this bill on the majority of the law-abiding citizens of the UK; we see this as a backward step in society. If the government wants to monitor a group or individual then they should stick the current format where permission has to be granted by a magistrate.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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