Silicon.com: Snooping Bill drives first ISP abroad

[Yaman Akdeniz]

On 10 Jul 00, at 17:07, Casper Dik wrote:

> Ah, and the country they operate in will let the UK put listening
> devices on networks operated on their soil?

That is a possibility that I would not exclude within the European 
Union as discussions on mutual assistance in criminal matters is still 
ongoing. It may not be the case of UK putting the listening devices but 
it may be a general requirement to have such devices within the EU.

> I think the readers of ukcrypto are approaching this too much from the
> perspective of the UK: there is undoubtedly a lot the UK government
> can do to one end of a business that might make them consider
> installing wiretapping equipment abroad.  But you can't sidestep the
> legal issues of installig UK run wiretaps abroad; it simply won't work
> without local law enforcement cooperation.

No it is not completely a UK issue at all. Interception of 
communications is currently being discussed at a EU level and there 
will be law enforcement co-operation between national forces within 
the EU and that will include interception of communications too. So I 
would not exclude cooperation issue. Therefore, it may not be the UK 
law enfrocement bodies doing the interception directly say in Holland 
but they may require the intercept in question through their Dutch 
colleagues and that may well be a "legal activity" in the near future.


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