{"id":180867,"date":"2016-12-07T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/07\/not-sauce-for-the-gander-it-would-seem\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:36:00","slug":"not-sauce-for-the-gander-it-would-seem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/07\/not-sauce-for-the-gander-it-would-seem\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Sauce for the Gander, It Would Seem"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a move that should surprise no one who follows British politics, MPs have added due process protections to the draconian surveillance bill that is under consideration that only apply to \u2026\u2026\u2026 wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026 MPs<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. <\/p>\n

The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed into law, brings some of the most extreme and invasive surveillance powers ever given to spies in a democratic state. But protections against those spying powers have been given to MPs. <\/p>\n

Most of the strongest powers in the new law require that those using them must be given a warrant. That applies to people wanting to see someone’s full internet browsing history, for instance, which is one of the things that will be collected under the new law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For most people, that warrant can be issued by a secretary of state. Applications are sent to senior ministers who can then approve either a targeted interception warrant or a targeted examination warrant, depending on what information the agency applying for the warrant \u2013 which could be anyone from a huge range of organisations \u2013 wants to see.<\/p>\n

But for members of parliament and other politicians, extra rules have been introduced. Those warrants must also be approved by the prime minister. <\/p>\n

That rule applies not only to members of the Westminster parliament but alos [sic<\/i>]<\/span> politicians in the devolved assembly and members of the European Parliament.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovely:  Politicians are saying “Rule of law for me, but not for thee.”<\/p>\n

F%$# them with Cheney’s dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a move that should surprise no one who follows British politics, MPs have added due process protections to the draconian surveillance bill that is under consideration that only apply to \u2026\u2026\u2026 wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026 MPs: Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[791,865,766,804,869,827],"class_list":["post-180867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-europe","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-legislation","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}