The Home Office Consultation Paper entitled Transposition of Directive 2006/24/EC is available here, and the deadline for comments is 31 October, 2008.

Government publishes new, wider Data Retention Regulations: “The Government has published a draft law that mandates the retention of data by internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies. The proposed Regulations will replace an earlier law that applied to non-internet data only.”

Home Office plans ‘snooper’s charter’: “Public bodies to be able to access personal details, with data available to investigators across Europe”