By Kat Hall, 9 Dec 2014
Every Parliament must conduct a "complete review" of the controversial Regulation Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) as a safeguard against the expansion of its use, former home secretary David Blunkett said today.
As home secretary in 2001 Blunkett was responsible for introducing the complex rules surrounding the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
Speaking at the (ISC)2 security conference in London, Blunkett told The Register that the expansion of the act’s powers to include snooping on journalists goes into "areas that it was never intended that people should have authorisation for.”
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