Online surveillance bill ‘will fall without judicial oversight’ claim

Last Updated: November 1, 2015By

Plans to grant police and intelligence officers new powers to monitor suspects online will not get through parliament without a requirement for judges to sign off on spying warrants, the former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has said.

The backbench MP was speaking before the publication of a draft of the investigatory powers bill, due on Wednesday, with the Home Office so far refusing to indicate whether the proposed legislation will include judicial approval of applications made by the security services to intercept communications.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, said on Thursday that Labour would not support the investigatory powers bill unless it included judicial oversight of national security warrants. A spokesperson for Burnham said the shadow cabinet had agreed the party’s position, including the opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and his deputy, Tom Watson, who both voted against the current emergency legislation.

Source: Online surveillance bill ‘will fall without judicial oversight’ | Politics | The Guardian

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One Comment

  1. Guy Ropes November 2, 2015 at 8:43 am - Reply

    This suggestion is nonsense. The ‘Security’ Services simply set their algorithms to whatever suits their purpose and every reference to that chosen subject is fed to them. Why do they have a need to sign such stuff off ? Who is going to blow the whistle on their misdeeds? If someone did, would it ever be made public? Certainly not by the MSM. After all, we have been told (ad nauseum) that the Sec Serves have corrupted at least 6 ‘plots’ in recent years that prevented massive casualties in the UK. Who were the criminals concerned? What were they planning to do? Where are the trials of these villains? If they’re not going to detail their triumphs, they’re unlikely to detail their failures.

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