In case anyone wants to try and take surveillance and privacy to #lab18. Here are some words.
Investigatory Powers to be subject to Human Rights Law.
Conference notes the report in the Register on 6th August that US Senators are challenging the NSA destruction of 4 years of phone usage records as they believe that this is in order to destroy evidence of illegal collection.
Conference notes the complete absence from the NPF report on the surveillance society and the illegal investigatory powers regime introduced by the Tories in 2016.
Conference notes that the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 legalised the use of bulk powers to allow the UK intelligence services to collect all the UK phone usage and internet usage records.
Conference notes that the intelligence services have made data on UK citizens available to the USA.
Conference notes that the exact terms of the data sharing between the UK & US are unknown
Conference notes that the Investigatory Powers Act has been ruled as contrary to EU law as it contravenes the Charter of Fundamental Rights which is the EU’s commitment to the European and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Conference resolves that a Labour Government will ensure that private and public surveillance technologies will conform to laws that meet the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Conference instructs the NEC/NPF to draw up a human rights based policy for the regulation of British law enforcement authorities and their investigatory powers.
218 words
This should probably have an anti-black listing clause and note that the [R]IPA laws all class defending the economic security of the nation as reasons for surveillance i.e. trade unionism. They have also made it easier to spy on MPs which while there’s a lot of criticism of their elite privilege, we should defend their ability to defend their constituents from the oppressive law enforcement activity.
Pingback:Contemporary Motions – davelevy.info
Pingback:Here’s looking at you kid – davelevy.info