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Re: from IP: Sunday Times (London) 30th April: "MI5 builds new centre to read e-mails on the net"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei Family)
Sun Apr 30 17:29:14 2000
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:07:49 -0400
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Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Forwarded from "Interesting People"
>
> >
> >MI5 is building a new =A325m e-mail surveillance centre that will have the
> >power to monitor all e-mails and internet messages sent and received in
> >Britain. The government is to require internet service providers, such as
> >Freeserve and AOL, to have "hardwire" links to the new computer facility so
> >that messages can be traced across the internet.
Isn't this identical to Russian policy?
Peter Trei
