Soup with Nerd³ - 1984

The Conservative government will talk about replacing it with a British Bill of Rights, but it will no doubt be inferior and will remove elements that will bring the government into contention with the Courts

I don't have time to watch the video yet so I might be repeating Dan a bit, but here's part of a comment I just wrote on another sub:

During the last government our phone and internet surveillance powers were ruled a breach of human rights by the ECHR. In response to this the government passed emergency legislation to ensure they would continue to be enforced, although the lib dems forced certain controls such as an expiry date. The previous government also tried multiple times to pass the Communications Data Bill, dubbed the "Snooper's Charter" by opponents. The bill would massively extend the government's surveillance powers:

The original data communications bill required internet and phone companies, including those overseas, to retain for 12 months all traffic data tracking the internet and phone use of their customers, including weblogs. It also required them to make the data available to the police and security services.

The home secretary Theresa May promised to pass the CDB once it was clear the Conservatives were likely to have a majority, before the election results had even finished coming in. Clearly this would be completely against the ECHR. Other Conservative manifesto plans such as disenfranchising prisoners would also be against the ECHR.

In addition, thanks to the whistleblower Snowden our intelligence and security organisation GCHQ was recently ruled to have been breaking the law for several years. The human rights organisations from around the world who brought the case to court plan to appeal to the ECHR in Strasbourg later this year with hopes of an even stronger ruling.

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