Why you should care about ISOs and Clause 152

No2ID have all the details here, read the whole two page article, but here is the summary:

"Buried among the numerous complicated and controversial provisions of this legislation is a single clause, clause 152 in the first draft of the Bill, which is a profound threat to privacy, liberty and the rule of law. It is enabling legislation that converts the Data Protection Act into a machine for massively increasing the dealing by government in information of all kinds. It is designed to allow ministers to use a fast-track regulatory procedure to sweep away data protection, human-rights considerations, confidentiality, legal privilege, and ultra vires when they would stand in the way of any use, acquisition or dissemination of information in pursuit of departmental policy.
The availability of broad data-sharing along these lines would be a profound change in the way the country is governed, potentially altering the function of almost all other legislation. It should not be introduced at all, but certainly not without proper public debate. There has been no such debate.
It would be a disaster if the “information sharing order” (ISO in what follows) were to be successfully smuggled through parliament in this manner."

Enabling legislation, how that phrase is redolent of days long gone.


This is the piece of legislation to turn the UK into a "database state", you must protest against this piece of legislation that Parliament may not even be given the time to vote on. If you don't have the time or the stomach for protesting then just write to your MP now, you can do so bu visiting Write to Them and tell your MP that you

"*refuse your consent* to the arbitrary sharing of your information under any ‘Information Sharing Order’ and that you want him or her to vote to have Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill (currently being debated in Parliament) *completely removed* from the Bill."

Pass the word and pass it quickly, this Labour government need to be stopped from turning a once free Country into something even more unpleasant than most of us can imagine.


If you are a social networker then you may want to sign up to the Stop Clause 152! facebook group.