How private is your private life?
I am writing to let you know what is happening with the Government’s Draft Communications Data Bill, also known as the Snoopers’ Charter.
The Government plans to instruct private companies to collect and store our ‘communications data’. That means records of emails, web activity, texts and phone calls – for the entire population. This amounts to mass, blanket surveillance - outsourced to the private sector.
Find out more about the Draft Communications Data Bill here
Your privacy is under threat
Your communications data can build up a very detailed picture of your life: who you have texted, emailed, skyped or phoned on any given day; where you were when the contact was made and for how long; which websites you have visited in the privacy of your own home; details of social media activity…and more.
We can stop the Snoopers’ Charter
Since we learned of the draft bill last year, we have submitted expert evidence to Parliament, secured public statements against the measures at all three main party conferences and encouraged thousands of Liberty members to write to their MPs or sign petitions.
This new law is being reviewed right now so we need your help urgently. We stopped this proposal under the last Government, and together we can stop it again.
Please visit www.nosnooperscharter.org.uk to help us stop the Snoopers’ Charter.
Thank you for your support
Shami Chakrabarti
Director of Liberty
