UK data privacy plans

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50:59 +0000
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: UK data privacy plans

Dave:

The (UK) Guardian has a front page story today claiming that the UK
government is bowing at last to demands that plans to allow a very
large number of government agencies to require that ISPs etc.,
provide them on request with information about email traffic, etc.,
be withdrawn. This would appear to be the second big policy u-turn in
the last few days, the other concerning plans to promote renewable
energy sources, etc., and indeed go further than the Tokyo accords.
I've not yet seen the connection made, but I can imagine that some
will see this as an attempt to counter-balance public concerns about
the way the Government has allied itself to the US Government, and
President Bush regarding, Iraq.



> Blunkett u-turn on data privacy plans
>
> Stuart Millar, technology correspondent
> Wednesday February 26, 2003
> The Guardian
>
> David Blunkett, the home secretary, has bowed to intense public
> concern over the privacy of electronic communications and radically
> redrawn plans to give a host of state agencies and local authorities
> the power to access telephone, internet and email records. .....

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,903230,00.html

cheers

Brian

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