UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws

Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselv... by amelius on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:33AM (#13087545)

> The government should not be able to use the tools of state to suppress legitimate parliamentary opposition. There would be nothing to stop the party in power using the law to specifically target opposing parties.

Why not introduce a law that further decouples intelligence agencies and the government. It could be made mandatory that information released by agencies are released to all members of parliament. This way, the government gets more transparency, and the people also get more transparency indirectly.

Just my 2 pence.

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Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselv... by lostboys67 on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:18AM (#13087731)

That would require all MP's to be vetted :-)

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Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselv... by amelius on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:15AM (#13088268)

We could start by disclosing only (detailed) meta-information.

Or we could choose 1 MP per party to be informed.

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Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselv... by toyg on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:55AM (#13089603)

The Leader of the Opposition is already in Privy Council, which (I believe) means he'll get most of the security briefs he wants to. He should probably be in COBRA too, but I don't think that's the case at the moment.

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Re:UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselv... by pjc50 on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:52AM (#13088943)

I'd like to see the government forced to give Special Branch info to Sinn Fein, that would be hilarious.

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