UK ‘climbs down’ over sex offenders plan
The UK Home Office, which has just had its hopes of creating a vast Big Brother data base dashed, has also had its plans to restrict registered sex offenders from using the net similarly thwarted. In April the UK government said a new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, says the Guardian , going in failure to comply “would have carried up to five years’ imprisonment”. However, the Home Office has been “forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy,” says the story, continuing »»» There are fears that any move by the police to share the personal details and email addresses of registered sex offenders with the social networking sites would be open to legal challenges.
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UK ‘climbs down’ over sex offenders plan
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