Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said that plans to monitor and store UK citizen’s online activity will not happen while he is in Downing Street.
He said that the “snooper’s charter” was “not going to happen” while Downing Street said discussions continued about “the next steps”, according to BBC News. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said that the reality was that technological change had not gone away and, while it was a sensitive issue, action was needed “to respond to those changes”.
Mr Clegg said he would be willing to accept changes to take account of new technology – such as ensuring each mobile device had its own unique IP address.
