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CIVIL liberties groups welcomed a report yesterday by a powerful parliamentary committee that found government plans for a snoopers’ charter had not yet been justified.
The joint committee on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill proposed 86 amendments and said that the government had further work to do before Parliament could be confident that plans had been “adequately thought through.”
Under the proposals internet providers would be compelled to retain internet communications records (ICRs) for up to a year.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
