Here's mine: Dear MP, I hope you will be voting against the emergency legislation being forced through parliament on Monday to make phone and internet compani

Here's mine: Dear MP, I hope you will be voting against the emergency legislation being forced through parliament on Monday to make phone and internet companies log all information. As a software professional with over a decade's experience in the industry, I can tell you that logging all such data in this manner is not just an obvious abuse of UK citizen's rights, and most likely of citizens of other countries - it is also dangerous in it's own right. Specific questions need to be answered before any kind of mass storage of information such as this can take place. Things such as: - which "named" people will be responsible for collating this data at which companies? - where will this data be stored? - what are the security arrangements around this? - what are the repercussions for breaches of security? ... to name a few. Do not just assume that these questions have all been answered by the appropriate "techy", it is YOUR responsiblity to ask these questions and vote against any policy that does not provide appropriate answers. I quote the following examples of cases where proper consideration was not taken. These are from my personal experiences: - finding my National Insurance number and name in an "anonymised" freely available government dataset. And the NI of a friend. - working at a large blue chip company that required me to be escorted in and out of the server room and taken to a specific server, only for the person doing the escorting to get bored and prop the door open with some wood and say, "don't tell anyone". - being given elevated priviledges to a network simply to "get something done". (This one happens more than you'd think). - being asked for information for a security check by the Police only for the email to include private information such as the requester's ID code. Yours sincerely, Phil Barr.