The measure, criticised
by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.
Obtaining such information from the US could circumvent existing British law prohibiting these kinds of measures,
which civil liberties campaigners are already opposing in home secretary Theresa May's «snoopers» charter» proposals.
Tory MP and
civil liberty campaigner David Davis told BBC Radio 5 Live: «Secret agencies naturally do not want to come out in a public area, they don't want to people to know what they are doing.
We therefore congratulate two Tory MPs - Eurosceptic backbencher and
civil liberties campaigner Sir Richard Shepherd and former Whip and headteacher Dame Angela Watkinson.
English Pen, Big Brother Watch and
other civil liberties campaigners brought the action following revelations about GCHQ's collection of internet data from millions of people not under any suspicion.
Limited rebellions saw the coalition's majority reduced to 32 and 40, ending frantic efforts
by civil liberties campaigners to persuade backbenchers to challenge the government.
Despite opposition
from civil liberties campaigners, the advanced imaging technology (AIT) scanners are now in operation at the two airports, and will be followed by Birmingham airport at the end of this month, followed by a nationwide roll - out.
Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.
Tonight's vote over 42 - day detention is going to be «very, very close» with the full pressure of the government machine being brought to bear,
civil liberties campaigners are saying.
Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to
civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.
The difference between now and the New Labour years is that
civil liberties campaigners are not on the back foot.
Anti-Corbyn MPs are using the confirmation of
the civil liberties campaigner's peerage as a new stick to beat him with, given the Labour leader previously said he would not nominate anyone to the Lords.
Anti-Corbyn MPs criticise peerage just weeks after
the civil liberties campaigner presides over a «whitewash» into Labour anti-Semitism.
But the move enraged privacy and
civil liberty campaigners, who were promised that the government would act to roll back the «database state» when it entered Downing Street.
Civil liberties campaigners have reacted with outrage at the government's plans, contained in the Queen's Speech, to give law enforcers wider scope to monitor details about private phone calls.
Civil liberties campaigners could contest proposals which would see the police handed the discretion to remove videos from internet sites, even with judicial approval.
Civil liberties campaigners have spoken out against laws that could see young people added to the sex offender register for taking explicit pictures of themselves.