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Introduce a digital bill of rights.
A Digital Bill of Rights would protect privacy by updating data laws.
That is why we are proposing a digital bill of rights to enshrine proper protections for citizens.
And this Sunday, at the Lib Dem spring conference, party members will get their say on a digital bill of rights.
The digital bill of rights called for by prominent authors and a technologist's Hippocratic oath (Whose side are you on?, 10 December) are highly desirable.
Enter the Digital Bill of Rights As a first step I think advertisers should get behind a global "Digital Bill of Rights" (see what Mashable has already produced here), a bill which must clearly be user-centric not provider centric, and which needs to lay down the law on who can mine, refine and sell what data, when and how, globally.
At its core, our proposal for a digital bill of rights ensures that there will be no surveillance without suspicion, and that our digital communication and behaviour will be treated with the same respect and legal due process that we expect for our offline communication and behaviour.
Such a "digital bill of rights" may also catalyse a new approach by governments around the globe, one that no longer merely sanctions the exploitation of our natural data resources just like it allowed the pillaging of our natural energy resources for the benefit of so very few.
Other suggestions include "sunset clauses" in future European legislation, stipulating that it must be returned to national parliaments after 15 years if national governments do not wish to see the law renewed, and a new digital bill of rights so that privacy is protected from intelligence agencies and large companies, including Google and Facebook.
