What is happening, we are not a communist countryand it is time we came out of Europe so that we can maintain out privacy laws. How dare the European Government demand such matter of deprvriving us of our rights.

I cannot believe that our own United Kingdom Government seeks further powers of this type over its citizens. The talk of safeguards is a fig-leaf; give a bureaucrat a power and he will use it whatever the safeguards. The many local authority misuses of the powers granted by RIPA is a case in point.

This bill should be strangled at birth

A Bill to advance the prevention and detection of crime and protecting the public? In the UK? This is not what you need. Here is what you need. You need a law enforcement structure that actually cares a whit about crime prevention and protecting the public. Get that first, or all else is folly.

to justify this bill on the convenient basis of counter-terrorism investigations, when in fact the data is going to be accessible for many other purposes under chapter 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is so dishonest that it defies belief...

So once again we see the bogeymen of "terrorism" and "crime" being trotted out to try to scare people into allowing another draconian piece of Big Brother Legislation.

This would allow wholesale "data trawling": monitoring our every communication "just in case" we were bad people.

Forget Presumption of Innocence, forget privacy of communications, we're all suspects now...