The draft investigatory powers bill published on Wednesday by the home secretary aims to provide a "comprehensive and comprehensible" overhaul of Britain's fragmented surveillance laws.
Far from a cohesive system, little was known about how the fragmented patchwork of "law and order" actually worked.
"The current law is fragmented, obscure, under constant challenge and variable in the protections that it affords the innocent.
On this point, the Anderson report noted: "The current law is fragmented, obscure, under constant challenge and variable in the protections that it affords the innocent.
Existing laws are fragmented and inadequate".
The group, the Pew Oceans Commission, urged the Bush administration and Congress to develop legislation creating a single agency for oceans and consolidating what is now, it said, a fragmented "hodgepodge of narrow laws" administered by a host of agencies.
Businesses with a stake in the cloud, which include newcomers like Oracle, Cisco Systems, SAP, Apple and Google, are all lobbying lawmakers to streamline the Continent's fragmented national data protection laws.
In all of the talk swirling around mobile disruption, download growth, retention metrics, and so forth, the most valuable attribute of app builders today may, in fact, be patience — the ability to understand this new, unbundled environment; to accept its new laws and fragmented audiences, and; to harness its scale and reach to create the next breakout the world doesn't know about yet.
"There's a very low conviction rate in cases of bride trafficking because the law is so fragmented," says Rakesh Senger, an activist with the organisation.
They found most companies to be immature and unsophisticated, all of them competing under the looming threat of federal law in a fragmented market with no real standards, poor marketing, and terrible branding.
