By Steve Ranger, 2 February 2006 15:00
NEWS
Another government tech policy has been defeated by the House of Lords, with peers rejecting plans to give police more power over terrorism-related content on websites.
The government's original plans would have allowed police to act after deciding information on the internet is related to terrorism. But this was changed by peers so that police would have to ask judges before telling ISPs to remove web pages, according to the BBC.
The government was defeated by 148 votes to 147. The bill received a third reading and will now return to the Commons.
Last month the House of Lords embarrassed the government by rejecting key parts of the controversial identity card scheme, voting to block the ID cards bill until the costs have been scrutinised by parliamentary watchdog, the National Audit Office, and by making it voluntary for people to enrol on the national ID register.
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