Business\u00a0 Arrow Policy Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies \u2026\u00a0 Proposals in the UK for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal advisors, The Register has learned.\u00a0 The proposed law update is an attempt to ban reporting of future big data leaks.\u00a0 The British government has received recommendations for a \u201cfuture-proofed\u201d new Espionage Act that would put leaking and whistleblowing in the same category as spying for foreign powers.\u00a0 That threatens leakers and journalists with the same extended jail sentences as foreign agents. Sentences would apply even if \u2013 like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning \u2013 the leaker was not British, or in Britain, or was intent on acting in the public interest. \u2013 The Register<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Britain is doing what one of the things it does best, which is thinking of how to punish people. Now it\u2019s figuring out ways to throw more people in jail for longer periods of time for exposing various kinds of government crimes.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s right. It\u2019s not thinking about lessening those crimes, only covering them up.<\/p>\n
The British government has received an updated Espionage Act that is a good deal stronger than the act on the books. It puts journalitsts in the same boat as foreign agents when it comes to spying and also does not differentiate between those who are citizens of other countries and those who come from Britain.<\/p>\n
The proposals have been slammed by journalists who faced down British and US government threats after publishing Edward Snowden\u2019s sensational revelations in 2013.\u00a0 The UK Law Commission\u2019s recommendations are contained in a 326-page consultation paper titled Protection of Official Data [PDF].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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