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UK to impose yet more nasty interception laws...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jul 23 13:09:25 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 23 Jul 1999 13:02:33 -0400
From "The Guardian" in the U.K.
Straw insists on e-mail
interception powers
Links, reports and background on the
Freedom of Information debate
David Hencke, Westminster Correspondent
Friday July 23, 1999
Draconian powers to jail anybody for up to two
years who discloses that their company's encrypted
e-mails or electronic documents are being
intercepted by the police, Customs or the security
services are to be announced by the government
today.
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/AC/setguestcookie.cgi?section=News&host=www%2Enewsunlimited%2Eco%2Euk&uri=%2Fpolitics%2Fstory%2F0%2C3604%2C67849%2C00%2Ehtml&userid=4G9Dbb01
