Electronic Surveillance: Crime

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to introduce legislation to make it an offence to use a digital device to repeatedly locate, listen to or watch a person without a legitimate purpose.


Answered by
David Lidington Portrait
David Lidington
This question was answered on 26th July 2017

The Government continues to keep the law under review, working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Home Office. There are no current plans to introduce new legislation.

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