NEW SAFEGUARDS FOR INTERNET PRIVACY

Early day motion 760, tabled 16 September 2010 by Robert Halfon (Conservative). Signed by 18 members.

That this House is deeply concerned by reports in the national press that a Google engineer was able illegally to 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.

Signatures by party: Labour 7, Liberal Democrat 4, DUP 3, Conservative 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2.