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Re: TechWeb 10/2/2000: "E-Spying Bill Called 'Escrow By
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Feb 14 11:40:19 2000
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:24:08 -0800
To: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org>, <cryptography@c2.net>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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A question on UK legislative terminology:
Does "published a bill" mean that Parliament approved it?
Or does it just mean that the ministers are proposing this law
that they'd _like_ to get Parliament to pass, but it
hasn't been passed yet?
At 08:20 AM 02/11/2000 -0000, Caspar Bowden wrote:
>http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000210S0005
>E-Spying Bill Called 'Escrow By Intimidation'
>(02/10/00, 12:58 p.m. ET) By Madeleine Acey, TechWeb
>
>The British government published a bill Thursday to update law enforcement's
>interception powers to include communications made via company networks and
>ISPs.
>
>The legislation was immediately slammed as threatening human rights and
>labelled "key escrow through intimidation" by Internet think tank the
>Foundation For Information Policy Research (FIPR). Key escrow is a failed
>policy by which users of encryption software lodge copies of security keys
>with third parties approved by government.
......
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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