I have stumbled on several “news” reports about the Investigatory Powers Bill in the UK.
Reports from committees in Parliament have started appearing, but are those reports linked in breathless accounts of the horrors of the Investigatory Powers bill?
You already know the answer to that question!
I did find UK surveillance bill condemned by a Parliamentary committee, for the third time by Cory Doctorow, which pointed to the Joint Select Committee recommendations for changes in the IP Bill.
For two other reports, Cory relied on no originals reporting in Wired.co.uk, which quoted many sources but failed to link to the reports themselves.
To get you started with the existing primary criticisms of the Investigatory Powers Bill:
- House of Lords, House of Commons, Joint Committee on the Draft, Investigatory Powers Bill, Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, Report (PDF, 198 pages) Conclusions and recommendations (HTML)
- House of Commons, Science and Technology Committee, Investigatory Powers Bill: technology issues, Third Report of Session 2015–16 (PDF, 42 pages)
- Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, Report on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill [9 February 2016] (PDF, 18 pages) Which builds upon another ISC report from 2015: Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament: Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework [12 March 2015] (PDF, 149 pages).
There was a myth the Internet (later the WWW) would provide greater access to information, along the lines of the Memex.
Deep information is out there and when you find it, please insert a link to it.
You and everyone who reads your paper, post, tweet, etc. will be better off for it.