New Safeguards For Internet Privacy

EDM number 760 in 2010-12, proposed by Robert Halfon on 16/09/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Internet and cybercrime and Standards.

That this House is deeply concerned by reports in the national press that a Google engineer was able to illegally access children's private email accounts and telephone records; welcomes Google's decision to terminate the engineer's employment; notes however, that Google only took action after parents and children complained that the engineer had illegally used Google data to harass four children, including a 15-year old boy; further notes that this is the second confirmed time that a Google employee has been condemned for such a breach of trust; and therefore calls for a comprehensive review into privacy law, which would establish tougher safeguards to protect internet privacy, to be administered by the Information Commissioner and which would give individual citizens a more accessible right of redress.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.