Use of RIP S.16.3 powers (GCHQ trawling against targets known in UK) ?

[Caspar Bowden]

See http://www.fipr.org/rip/OverRideCertificates.htm for (brain-hurting)
explanation of 16.3

Since this was an anti-terrorist purpose, it would actually have been
allowed by IOCA - the point about 16.3 is allowed purposes extended to
include nat.sec, serious crime, and econ wellbeing
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Caspar Bowden               Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:    www.fipr.org/rip#media

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,450005,00.html
Provos scout terror targets in England

Observer 11/3/2001: "Provos scout terror targets in England"
...
Security sources said sophisticated electronic intelligence-gathering
techniques had been used to 'eavesdrop' on an IRA member who recently used
an internet cafe in Ipswich to contact an IRA commander in Belfast. They
have since lost trace of him.