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Dr Jenny Woods is an activist from the Greater Reading Party with a particular interest in how advances in science and technology can contribute to future policy. In her day job she coordinates a national network of chemists, chemical engineers and materials scientists who work together to tackle the big challenges facing society.
Dr Jenny Woods

Opinion: A reference article for the Communications Data bill

By Dr Jenny Woods | Wed 24th April 2013 - 9:37 am

Back in February 2012, I became concerned about rumours of proposed new legislation which would put in place the means for monitoring all UK citizens’ online and mobile communications – legislation which had previously been thrown out as unworkable by opposition parties when the last Labour government tried something similar.

I wrote a policy amendment, appended to Julian Huppert’s Spring 2012 Conference motion on civil liberties, setting out what I hoped would be a good Liberal Democrat position against those – then unseen – proposals. If I’d known then what was to be …

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