Despite all the debate about surveillance and privacy in the U.S., the newly elected U.K. Conservative government is pushing in an even more hawkish direction on surveillance, with new legislation incoming that looks set to greatly expand data retention powers.
The bill expands existing communications data retention requirements and grants access to law enforcement and other public authorities, in an effort to assist intelligence agencies and the police investigate crime and terrorism.
Talk swung between the trivial and the serious, with questions ranging from how best to download torrents, to whether the data retention bill will expand in the future.
Lawyers and telcos have called on the Abbott government to tighten its data retention laws, arguing their vague wording would allow the intrusion into citizens' activities to expand over time.
They could use this same data for other services such as data retention as an example — and the company intends to continue to focus on this information to expand its content management vision and provide additional services across the platform over time.
Ditto for mandatory data retention.
Data retention is an industry-wide problem.
Again, data retention is not about fighting terror, data retention is about something much bigger.
There has to be … proportionate rules on the data retention.
