{"id":45663,"date":"2013-04-18T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=45663"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:35:59","slug":"uk-snoopers-charter-should-be-dropped-before-the-queens-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=45663","title":{"rendered":"UK &#8220;Snooper&#8217;s Charter&#8221; should be dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s Speech is set to take place on 8 May this year, and according to UK-based campaigning group 38 Degrees, Home Secretary Theresa May is still pushing for the controversial <a title=\"Index: UK \u201csnooper\u2019s charter\u201d to be redrafted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/12\/uk-snoopers-charter-to-be-redrafted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Communications Data Bill<\/a> to go through.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a31.8 million plan &#8212; known as &#8220;the Snooper&#8217;s Charter&#8221; by opponents &#8212; <a title=\"Guardian: MPs call communications data bill 'honeypot for hackers and criminals'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/oct\/31\/communications-data-bill-honeypot-hackers-criminals\" target=\"_blank\">would require<\/a> that all telecommunications companies monitor the phone, e-mail, and web usage of citizens. Index has previously called the draft bill &#8220;unacceptable&#8221;, and said last year that\u00a0\u201cthe decisions the UK Parliament takes on this bill will impact on human rights both in the UK and beyond, not least in authoritarian states.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><a title=\"38 Degrees: Privacy - Email your MP\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.38degrees.org.uk\/page\/speakout\/privacy-queens-speech-email-mps\" target=\"_blank\">Write to your MP<\/a> to and let them know that the bill should be dropped.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/08\/23\/the-communications-data-bill-what-index-says\/\">Plus read Index on Censorship on the Communications Data Bill<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen&#8217;s Speech is on 8 May, and Home Secretary Theresa May is still pushing for &#8220;Snooper&#8217;s Charter&#8221; to go through. <a title=\"38 Degrees: Privacy - Email your MP\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.38degrees.org.uk\/page\/speakout\/privacy-queens-speech-email-mps\" target=\"_blank\">Write to your MP<\/a> to and let them know that the bill should be dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[4892,4891,269,4755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45663"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50044,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45663\/revisions\/50044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}