UK ISPA Give Police Secret Briefing and new CR&CL(UK) report lau

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:43:49 GMT0BST
	"Yaman Akdeniz" <lawya@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> said...

> Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) has discovered that the Internet
> Service Providers Association ("ISPA") last year gave a secret
> briefing to the Association of Chief Police Officers ("ACPO") about
> the ISP industry capabilities for the provision of information to the
> police about their customers. This new "Who Watches the Watchmen"
> report therefore brings into the open what your ISP can do for the
> police with your Internet account.

I don't think there was anything particularly secret about it. The
fact that the meeting was to be held was discussed on the newsgroups
before it happened. There are circumstances where ISPs should disclose
evidence related to a crime in just the same way as any citizen could
reasonably be expected to respond when a policeman knocks on the door
and asks "Did you see ...?". The meeting was merely to discuss some
uniform procedures to be used when such information was requested, and
Clive Feather (who attended the meeting) gave clear assurances as to the
sort of information Demon might or might not be prepared to divulge.
 

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