<story><title>UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PJDK</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot of comments in this thread throwing up their hands about this.  That&amp;#x27;s the attitude that will let this sort of thing happen.&lt;p&gt;Bills are published like this well ahead of them even being debated so that interested parties can comment.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a major faction within the Conservative party that is pro privacy (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;hi&amp;#x2F;uk_politics&amp;#x2F;7450627.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;hi&amp;#x2F;uk_politics&amp;#x2F;7450627.stm&lt;/a&gt;), and it&amp;#x27;s also pro business.  This is anti privacy and anti business.  It&amp;#x27;s a winnable fight, but not if you give up at the first suggestion of a thing you don&amp;#x27;t like.&lt;p&gt;Write to MPs, say &amp;quot;As CEO of awesome corp I would seriously consider relocating to Berlin&amp;quot;. That sort of thing will get attention.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-spy-bill-will-force-tech-firms-to-disclose-future-products-before-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CommanderData</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t forget this from 2 months ago..  UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11265666&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11265666&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;These laws WILL affect UK tech start-ups if privacy has anything to do with their business model.&lt;p&gt;I have said so in the past, don&amp;#x27;t register your tech startups in the UK. Boycott is sometimes an effective means for change. UK law makers know this could back-fire, they are taking a gamble they have already lost.</text></comment>