Re: Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year

From	Hils <hils@saynotospam.net>
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Subject	Re: Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year
Date	2015-07-17 19:12 +0100
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On 05/07/15 17:54, RS Wood wrote:
> From the «congratulations, bitch» department: Title: Theresa May
> Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year Author: help@slashdot.org 
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 03:24:00 -0400 Link:
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qhdhv4mLgRk/theresa-may-named-uks-internet-villain-of-the-year
>
>  Theresa May, the UK's Secretary of State for the Home Department,
> has been named the UK internet industry's villain of the year. She
> won this dubious honor for pushing the UK's controversial "snooper's
> charter" legislation, which would require ISPs to retain massive
> amounts of data regarding their subscribers for no less than a year.
> May championed the legislation without consulting the internet
> industry. Conversely, "The MPs Tom Watson and David Davis were
> jointly named internet hero for their legal action against the Data
> Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. 'Surveillance has dominated
> both the hero and villain shortlists for number of years, and it was
> felt Davis and Watson were some of the best informed politicians on
> the subject,' the ISPA said."

"Emergency surveillance legislation introduced by the coalition
government last year is unlawful, the high court has ruled.

A judicial challenge by the Labour MP Tom Watson and the Conservative MP
David Davis has been upheld by judges who found that the Data Retention
and Investigatory Powers Act (Dripa) 2014 is “inconsistent with European
Union law”."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/17/data-retention-and-surveillance-legislation-ruled-unlawful

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Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-07-05 16:54 +0000
  Re: Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-07-05 19:05 +0100
  Re: Theresa May wins UK Internet villain of the year Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-07-17 19:12 +0100

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