Today’s campaign theme has been the Digital Rights Bill that the party wants to introduce to protect people’s rights against misuse of their data and protect them from unwarranted intrusion by the state. The Bill would introduce:
Prison sentences for companies conducting large-scale data theft and illegally selling on personal data;
Beefed up powers for the Information Commissioner to fine and enforce disciplinary action on government bodies if they breach data protection laws;
Legal rights to compensation for consumers when companies make people sign up online to deliberately misleading and illegible terms & conditions;
Code of Practice for online services who would by law have to correct information about members of the public where it is inaccurate or defamatory;
Enshrining in law the responsibility of government to defend the free press, including the rights of journalists and citizen journalists to express their views freely online;
Prevent government from watering down cyber-security and encryption measures used by British business.
Nick Clegg talked about why it is important
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