<div dir="ltr">The government is pushing through this newly announced 'emergency' bill in the last week & a half or parliament before their summer break.<br><br>I appreciate police & intelligence services want to be able to request metadata from communications providers, but I'm not really clear why a law change is required for communications data to be held for 12 months. Probably most businesses will want to hold this data for a year in order to address billing disputes & such.<br>
<br>Draft bill is here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-data-retention-and-investigatory-powers-bill">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-data-retention-and-investigatory-powers-bill</a><br>
<br>There's some news coverage here:<br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/surveillance-legislation-commons-support-critics-stitch-up">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/surveillance-legislation-commons-support-critics-stitch-up</a><br>
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10958366/Emergency-laws-to-monitor-phone-and-internet-records-to-stop-terrorists.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10958366/Emergency-laws-to-monitor-phone-and-internet-records-to-stop-terrorists.html</a><br>
<br>And BBC Radio 4's World At One covered this:<br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048nlfn">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048nlfn</a><br>Including David Davis MP (C, for Haltemprice & Howden) critiquing the proposal & calling for a warrant based process:<br>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022kbnx">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022kbnx</a></div>