Proposed legislation

(work in progress) Proposed legislation affecting online/digital rights.

UK Parliament

• http://www.parliament.uk/business/bills-and-legislation/

Bills that are known to affect computer and communications network usage, electronic privacy, copyright, etc:

2016-17

• As yet unannounced Digital Bill 2016

• Malicious Communications (Social Media) Bill

2015-16

• See General Election 2015 Party Manifestos#Conservatives‎
• Investigatory Powers Bill
  • may update Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (due to sunset of sections)
• Counter-Extremism Bill
• Online Safety Bill (PMB)
• A draft UK Bill of Rights
• Possible legislation requiring websites implement online age verification
• Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill (PMB)

2014-15

• Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill

• Communications Bill (expected)
• Consumer Rights Bill
• Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill
• Digital Economy Act/Technical Measures (SI) (expected)
• Mobile Phones and Other Devices Capable of Connection to the Internet (Distribution of Sexually Explicit Images and Manufacturers’ Anti-Pornography Default Setting) Bill (PMB)
• Serious Crime Bill
• Online Safety Bill (PMB)
• as yet unnamed bill covering sites hosing "films that glamourise sexual violence and abuse"
• Internet Communications (Regulation) Bill (PMB)

2013-14

• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill
• Intellectual Property Bill
• IP address matching proposals (may potentially not require primary legislation)
• Draft Consumer Rights Bill
• Criminal Justice and Courts Bill
• Deregulation Bill
• Online Safety Bill (PMB)
• Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill
• Unsolicited Telephone Communications Bill (PMB)
• Local Audit and Accountability Bill
• Licensed Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles (Closed Circuit Television) Bill (PMB)
• Surveillance of Telecommunications (Judicial Oversight) Bill (PMB)

2012-13

• Draft Communications Data Bill
• Crime and Courts Bill
• Defamation Bill
• Digital Economy Act/Initial Obligations Code (SI)
• Electoral Registration and Administration Bill
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
• Interception of Communications (Admissibility of evidence) Bill (PMB)
• Justice and Security Bill
• Offshore Gambling Bill (PMB)
• Online Safety Bill (PMB)
• Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill 2012 (PMB)
• Suicide (Prevention) Bill (PMB)
• Supermarket Pricing Information Bill (PMB)

2010-12

• Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill (PMB)
• Internet Regulation (Material Inciting Gang Violence) Bill (PMB)
• Online Safety Bill (PMB)
• Suicide (Prevention) Bill (PMB)

European Union

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 2011
• IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Directive )
• Data Protection Regulation
• Attacks Against Information Systems Directive

International

• ACTA
• CETA
• TTIP
• TISA