The Consenting Adults Action Network (CAAN) have just published a book (booklet?) by Jane Fae Ozimek (one of the last projects written as John Ozimek) - Beyond the Circle. I got my copy of it the other week and have read it over the past couple of days (the joy of a nicely timed work commute).

This is not a blog post I had planned to write - especially in the middle of an election, but blogging, for me, is meant to be about things you find interesting as you find them interesting. Nor is this a blog post which will answer the questions it poses - I don't think there are answers to some of the questions.

This morning a couple of ReTweets came up in my twitter stream from @glynmoody.

RT @alexanderhanff preparing a criminal complaint against Canonical over privacy concerns raised by logging/publishing of online chatrooms

Last night The Open Rights Group hosted an event called Resisting The All Seeing Eye with Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross. I couldn't go because it was in London and train and accommodation fees would cripple me and leave nothing to donate to ORG. It did mean I got to go see Mark Thomas at the Parr Hall and have my policy suggestion of "force events to happen OUTSIDE London" read out and summarily dismissed as the gig was outside London.

One of the things to come out of The Convention on Modern Liberty on Saturday was a warning about Section 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill. This section, as the warning goes, allows any government department to bypass the data protection act. An urgent call to act has been raised.

Before I act though, I like to look at what the situation actually is, what the threat is, and what my concerns are. Which is what this post is about.