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UK intelligence agencies want 7 years of records of all phone calls, emails and internet connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Caspar Bowden)
Sun Dec 3 16:46:24 2000
From: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org>
To: "Ukcrypto (E-mail)" <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
"Cryptography@c2. net (E-mail)" <cryptography@c2.net>,
<cyber-rights-UK@cyber-rights.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:05:06 -0000
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"Secret plan to spy on all British phone calls"
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,406191,00.html
<<..Britain's intelligence services are seeking powers to seize all records
of telephone calls, emails and internet connections made by every person
living in this country. A document circulated to Home Office officials and
obtained by The Observer reveals that MI5, MI6 and the police are demanding
new legislation to log every phone call made in this country and store the
information for seven years at a vast government-run 'data warehouse', a
super computer that will hold the information...>>
The document referred to in the Observer front page story today appears to
have been posted on the US website "Cryptome".
==> http://cryptome.org/ncis-carnivore.htm
Also linked from the RIP Info Centre (www.fipr.org/rip) are BBC audio
interviews with Home Office Minister Paul Boateng and the Observer's
Political Editor, Kamal Ahmed.
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29/11/00 MOOT! - open-design, open-source
cryptography project to defeat RIP
27/11/00 TUC report "Surveillance at work: Sensible solutions"
24/11/00 Council of Europe v.24 Draft Convention on Cyber-crime
23/11/00 Annotated interview with Charles Clarke repeatedly
denying that there was ever any problem with the
burden-of-proof issue in RIP on key possession.
21/11/00 EPIC Statement on Carnivore Report - Provides No
Reassurance On Monitoring System's Potential For Abuse
17/11/00 FIPR and JUSTICE response to consultation on draft
Code of Practice on Interception
1/11/00 Membership of RIP Tribunal announced
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Caspar Bowden Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
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