UK government set to ram through surveillance legislation


The UK government is has put MPs on notice that a bill will be considered and moved on July 14, but they won't say what it is. Veteran Labour MP Tom Watson thinks it's data retention legislation that will enlist the private sector to comprehensively spy on everything you do and save it for long periods, turning it over to the government when asked. And almost no one — not even MPs — will get a chance to read the bill right up to the last minute, when they'll be whipped to vote for it by their party leadership.