London: Britain’s lower house of parliament has voted in favour of emergency legislation to allow police and security services to continue accessing Internet and mobile phone data following angry exchanges between lawmakers.
A group of 56 members of parliament yesterday confronted the three main parties, which had agreed to rush the new legislation into law, claiming the move was an abuse of parliament. The bill, which will allow mobile networks and Internet providers to keep information on communications between people in case they are needed for investigations, was passed in the House of Commons by a large majority.
But it must still be approved in the House of Lords, and has a sunset clause allowing it to be reviewed at six-month intervals.
