Communications Interception: Blog Post and News Roundup

Blog posts relating to Tuesday night’s conference call: (In no particular order)

• Zoe O’Connell, Complicity – The party machine’s view on communication interception
• Jennie Rigg, Miss S B – I’ve Just Got Off The Phone After a Conference Call With the Office of the DPM and More on the CCDP thing, and on LibDemmery in general.
• Jonathan Calder, Liberal England – Some unsolicited political advice for Nick Clegg
• Richard Morris, A View From Ham Common – Observations on last night’s conference call with the great and the good.

A few prior to that call, or not related to it:

• Zoe O’Connell, Complicity – People’s Democratic Republic of Liberal Democracy
• Nic Prigg’s Blog – An Open Letter to the LibDem Party Leadership!
• Spineless Liberal – Don’t Patronise Me – Or Spy on Me
• Julian Huppert on LibDemVoice – Safeguards to control state surveillance
• James Firth, Slightly Right of Centre – Government internet snoop plans in a small a nutshell as I can manage and Confusion over warrants, surveillance powers and the intrusiveness of traffic data
• Caron’s Musings – E-mail and web snooping idea – why I’m worried
• Mark Pack – Walking: it’s time to take action on this major terrorist threat and Government snooping plans: why I’m not outraged, yet
• Mark Pack on LibDemVoice – The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwagon
• Jon Walls, Contrasting Sounds – The CCDP: the many ways in which it is mistaken

Later additions to this list:

• Jennie Rigg, Miss S B – “New” Government Plans to Snoop on Email and Social Networks: Tinfoil Hat Time?
• Legion’s Eagle – Aargh!!!. “Myth Two” is a particularly important point
• A C McGregor, Leading Lines – An Insult to my Freedom

Mainstream press, firstly prior to the call:

• Nick Clegg’s Interview on World at One (Transcript by Richard Morris, A View from Ham Common)
• New Statesman (The Staggers) – Clegg must speak up against web snooping
• The Sun – Terrorism debate: Are GCHQ set to spy on you?
• Daily Mail – Promises betrayed, and this stealthy slide into Big Brother Britain
• The Guardian – Nick Clegg tried to head off Lib Dem revolt over email surveillance plans
• The Guardian Letters Page – Liberal Democrat MPs stand up for data privacy

And a couple from after: (Note the difference in tone!)

• The Guardian – Nick Clegg attacks ‘blunderbuss’ Tories
• New Statesman (The Staggers) – Clegg ups the volume on civil liberties
• The Times (£) – We’ll let Liberty rule on internet snooping, says Clegg