DTI White Paper on Export Control

[Ian G Batten]

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> Does this section imply that a person who might transfer controlled
> information abroad can be punished  for not keeping records?  If I have
> no records of the email I have sent and HMC&E asked for my records how
> can I prove that I didn't transfer controlled documents?


And from Ross:

> The white paper also proposes to ban private conversations with non-EU
> nationals about weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles
> (and this could be extended to crypto at ministerial discretion). Who
> is this aimed at - CND?

Does this imply that when we next see my wife's cousin, who
although English lives in Brazil with his Italian wife, we
should tape-record all the conversations so we can avoid any
accusation that we gave him crypto-information to export?

I presume, though, that the main reason the government are
keen to pass laws `preventing' the export of certain things
electronically is that it'll give them carte blanche to
engage in an ELINT operation to actually find the stuff
being exported.

I constantly wonder who is a bigger threat to our liberty:
the politicians who want to pass the repressive laws, the
security services who encourage them or the civil servants
who obey orders.

ian

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