Nick Clegg is to accuse the Prime Minister of eroding the "freedom of British citizens" with plans to allow intelligence agencies to track people's emails and web activities.
His comments come the day after David Cameron vowed to introduce "comprehensive" legislation to give agencies "robust powers" to protect people from Paris-style attacks.
The Prime Minister said the Conservatives would revive the measures in the so-called "snoopers' charter", which was abandoned after objection from the Liberal Democrats, if they won the General Election.
In a speech later today at the Irish Embassy, Mr Clegg will say: "The irony appears to be lost on some politicians who say in one breath that they will defend freedom of expression and then in the next advocate a huge encroachment on the freedom of all British citizens.
"Let me be really clear, we have every right to invade the privacy of terrorists and those we think want to do us harm - but we should not equate that with invading the privacy of every single person in the UK. They are not the same thing.
"The snoopers' charter is not targeted. It's not proportionate. It's not harmless."
Mr Clegg said he agreed it was right for the agencies to have power to access the internet communications of terror suspects and that Britain retained the right to "steam open letters" of those considered a threat.
However, he objected to the part of the now dropped data communications act that meant details of every social media interaction and every website visit of everyone in the country should be stored.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme he said that would include the digital footprint of children and grandmothers, who did nothing more than visit gardening websites.
It comes after the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, warned there was a danger of "dark places" developing online that spies were unable to monitor.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said Mr Cameron's proposals for new powers were necessary because there was "a small but significant number of people we have to monitor the whole time".
He agreed he was "spooked" by the idea of everyone's internet communications being monitored and said he had sympathy with Mr Clegg's concerns over civil liberties.
He told the same programme: "That's why it's important the process should be transparent, it should be accountable and everybody should be able to review what has taken place and decide, in retrospect, whether decisions were rightly made.
"What I think would be wrong would be to refuse the police access to a huge variety and number of communications now being made using the internet."
He said it should be down to the courts to decide whether intelligence agencies should be allowed to access to internet communications.
Speaking at an event in Nottingham on Monday, Mr Cameron said: "The attacks in Paris once again demonstrated the scale of the terrorist threat that we face and the need to have robust powers through our intelligence and security agencies and policing in order to keep our people safe."
He added: "That is the key principle: do we allow safe spaces for them to talk to each other? I say no, we don't, and we should legislate accordingly."
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Clegg Condemns PM's Internet Spying Plans
Dengan url
http://serverkecil.blogspot.com/2015/01/clegg-condemns-pms-internet-spying-plans.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Clegg Condemns PM's Internet Spying Plans
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Clegg Condemns PM's Internet Spying Plans
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar