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Europe Data Protection Digest | Draft Communications Bill Raises Surveillance Concerns Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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A draft bill currently being considered by Parliament is raising concerns among some civil liberties campaigners and journalist Henry Porter, BBC News reports. The draft Communications Data Bill would require Internet service providers to retain users’ online activities for one year to allow law enforcement and intelligence authorities access to the data. Retained activity would include social networking use, webmail, Internet phone calls and online gaming, the report states. Porter told a parliamentary committee that such a law would be “really dangerous,” adding, “I don’t believe this entire nation should subject itself to massive surveillance campaign by a few people who appear to be unscrutinised and the methods untransparent.”
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