Nick Clegg: No-go on snoopers" charter THE so-called "snoopers" charter" which would allow police and security services access to records of individuals" internet use is "not going to happen," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said today. Nick Clegg says "snoopers" charter" will not happen while Lib Dems are in government Says Coalition Government will learn lessons from the past when "Labour overdid it" The Liberal Democrat leader has mounted staunch resistance within Government to measures included in Home Secretary Theresa May's proposed Communications Data Bill which would allow the storage of details of the history of website visits and social media contacts for each internet user. Reports this week suggested that Mrs May has redrawn the legislation with significant concessions in the hope of getting it included in the Queen's Speech on May 8. But Mr Clegg indicated today that he is ready to accept only minor technical changes - such as ensuring that every mobile device has its own unique IP address - and does not regard the large-scale retention of internet use records in a "treasure trove" of data to be mined by security officials as either "workable or proportionate." Speaking on his weekly Call Clegg phone-in on LBC 97.3 radio, he said: "What people have dubbed the "snoopers" charter" is not going to happen. The idea was that the Government would pass a law which means there would be a record kept of every website you visit, who you communicate with on social media sites. That is not going to happen. It is certainly not going to happen with Liberal Democrats in Government. We all committed ourselves at the beginning of this Coalition to learn the lessons from the past, when Labour overdid it, trying to constantly keep tabs on everyone. We have a commitment in this Coalition Agreement to end the storage of internet information unless there is a very good reason to do so. I have spoken to senior police officers and people from the security services. Of course we need to support them. They have got very significant powers already which I support them in deploying to go after criminals to keep us safe. There are technical issues about how, as technology changes, we have got to update that. For instance, we have all got more and more mobile devices but there aren't enough IP addresses to go around and we need to straighten that out. That is something the Government will do and will work with the police and others to do so. "But this idea of a snoopers" charter, as it's been dubbed, where a law is passed where there is a record kept of all the websites you visit and who you communicate with on social media sites, I'm afraid that is not either necessarily workable nor proportionate, so it is not going to happen." Mr Clegg said he did not believe the British public would support the hoarding of huge amount of information about individuals" internet use in a "treasure trove of data which you can then dip into if you need to." And he said internet service providers had warned that such a scheme was "not necessarily technically feasible." "We have got to get the balance right between giving the police the tools they need to do the job but do so in a way that gets the balance right between liberty and security, between privacy and what law enforcement agencies do," he said.