What needs to be customised about email? Or file storage? Or even how council tax IT systems work? We can save money, improve security, and provide a better service.
“We need to disrupt plots in their early stages. Many such plots will include some element of online radicalisation.”
The risks might seem a bit science-fiction now, but they’re real and could create strong headwinds of public scepticism against this new technology.
We need to safeguard local residents and and traditional businesses.
Bland, uniform national messaging failed just as hard online as it did on the ground. The Party is playing catch-up, and must get it right.
This problem may have started abroad, but it is now here, in our own society. It must be dealt with.
“You can’t have a situation where warranted information is needed, perhaps to stop an attack like the one last week, and it can’t be accessed.”
The Shadow Home Secretary says social media is being used to ‘poison the political debate’, and that internet providers need to ‘do more to close down these people’.
Most important is delivering the programme on a practical timescale rather than a political one.
They’re not what the Bill’s opponents are focusing upon.
Do we really want to live in a country in which politicians decide the terms of doing business after the fact?
The Government is right to dismiss 38 Degrees’ attempt to spam it with BBC feedback, but better rules could sideline such efforts permanently.
Carswell and I predicted that the internet would finish off top-down politics, but I still find it weird when it actually happens.
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to see the opportunities the scheme offers to hostile powers.
Just as with electrical and product safety certifications, there needs to be a standard which is enforced for the software elements of all such products before they can be sold.