{"id":154589,"date":"2015-05-26T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154589"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:17:58","slug":"experts-warn-uk-security-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/experts-warn-uk-security-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn about UK security laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">A group of UK legal academics has sent a letter to the country\u2019s MPs calling for a proper assessment of the risks posed by Britain\u2019s security laws.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">38 specialist signatories drawn from across different fields of law explained their concerns adding new surveillance laws and immunity\u00a0granted to police and intelligence service hackers must be subject to open assessment and thorough critique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">They said their aim is to \u201censure that any changes in the law, and especially any expansions of power, are fully and transparently vetted by parliament, and open to consultation from the public and all relevant stakeholders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The change in law was first reported last Friday by the campaign group Privacy International, which had been in the process of bringing a legal challenge against the government in the hope of curtailing GCHQ\u2019s invasive practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/26\/412967\/Experts-warn-about-UK-security-risks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of UK legal academics has sent a letter to the country\u2019s MPs calling for a proper assessment of the risks posed by Britain\u2019s security laws. 38 specialist signatories drawn from across different fields of law explained their concerns adding new surveillance laws and immunity\u00a0granted to police and intelligence service hackers must be subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}