Senior Conservative MP David Davis told Computer Weekly there was “no credible case” for the government to refuse to tell Parliament how many notices it issues each year to telecoms and internet companies.
“The government is being dishonest in its use of ‘national security’ as a smokescreen to avoid telling the public how often it has ordered tech companies to hand over data or undermine encryption,” he said.
Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly
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@alecm This is the One Thing that Davis has been consistently savvy about over the time he's been a Tory. Think back to the time of The Snooper's Charter, when him and Labour's Tom Watson opposed that bill being rushed through during Wash-Up
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https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department_v_Watson_%26_Others-
Concur. That’s one of the things that I love about digital rights, it crosses so many divides
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