Comments on: Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights warns UK over Intercept Modernisation http://idealgovernment.com/2009/01/europes_commissioner_for_human_rights_warns_uk_over_intercept_modernisation/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Guy Herbert http://idealgovernment.com/2009/01/europes_commissioner_for_human_rights_warns_uk_over_intercept_modernisation/comment-page-1/#comment-2709 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:11:42 +0000 http://europes_commissioner_for_human_rights_warns_uk_over_intercept_modernisation#comment-2709 I agree. The difficulty is how to get new people in charge, since the people in charge seem to be permanent staff in the Home and Cabinet Offices, and in certain executive agencies.

We don’t just need a new set of ministers to whom privacy and liberty are intelligible concepts; we need them to recognise that the institutions they nominally take charge of have their own poisoned agendas and revolving doors with their suppliers, and for the politicians to set about dismantling the structures that sustain those departmental cultures.

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