Home Secretary of the UK, Theresa May. Flickr/Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Some rights reserved.In the very first Yes Minister episode, Sir Humphrey is challenged as to why he will call a publication "Open Government", when he is totally opposed to the concept. He says: "Always dispose of the difficulty in the title. It does less harm there than in the text."
Clearly, the UK's home secretary took this advice to heart. When the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, having heard the case from the Home Office and the agencies, demanded "that an additional Part be included in the new legislation to provide universal privacy protections", the home secretary acted — and changed the title of the first chapter.
It was "General Protections", and is now "General Privacy Protections".
