Five ways to improve online snooping laws

• Autores: Richard Kemp
• Localización: The Lawyer, ISSN-e 0953-7902, Vol. 30, Nº. 37 (11/2/2015), 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Industry comment Europe is setting the pace in balancing state power against individual rights in the internet age. UK lawmakers could learn some useful lessons The upcoming bill on investigatory powers will take its place in a long tradition of balancing state powers and citizens' rights, and is an opportunity to improve transparency and legal certainty.

    Today (2 November) marks the second great British legal birthday of 2015 -- the 250th anniversary of Lord Camden's judgment in Entick v Carrington in 1765. In the timeless tussle between state surveillance powers and citizens' rights this case concerned government attempts to stifle popular opposition in pamphlets and coffee shops, the social media platforms of their day, by harrying authors through warrants to search and seize their papers, and ransack their homes