RIPlist Bulletin : New Akdeniz paper, TAB consultation results, EC Cybercrime paper deadline

[Caspar Bowden]

RIP Bulletin : 15/3/01

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12/3/01 Summary of responses to public consultation on section 13 Order
(composition of Technical Advisory Board)

* Bigbrother.gov.uk: State surveillance in the age of information and
rights,
Akdeniz, Y.; Taylor, N.; Walker, C., Criminal Law Review, (February 2001),
pp. 73-90
http://www.cyber-rights.org/documents/crimlr.pdf

RESPONSE DEADLINE 23/3/01 European Commission: Creating a Safer Information
Society by Improving the Security of Information Infrastructures and
Combating Computer-related Crime (26/1/01)

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			 RIPnews since last bulletin....

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Dotcom.com 14/3/01: British Law Lets Government Monitor The Net

VNU 12/3/01: Cybercop slams EU law - Britain's leading cybercop has slammed
European Union data processing legislation which he says makes it impossible
for police to smash online crime rings.

ZDNet Uk 9/3/01: Ignorance of email snooping law rife

Guardian 8/3/01: Hush push for secure privacy - Last year, Hush paired with
the UK privacy advocates Cyber Rights and Cyber Liberties to offer Britons
free encrypted email that bypassed the restrictions of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act. (Asked if Hush might consider moving its
office to Britain post-RIP, Hush's Dublin-based chief executive Jon Matonis
laughed. "No. Absolutely, we would not. It would be too restrictive.")

Guardian 8/3/01: Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace

Silicon.com 8/3/01: Bewildered IT directors struggle with email laws

VNUnet 7/3/01: Cybercrimes treaty edges closer

Industry Standard 7/3/01: The wrong arm of the law

Irish Times 6/3/01: Myths that hinder Internet expansion

New Media Age 6/3/01: Enormous burdens

ZDnet UK 6/3/01: Government regulations stifle e-business

Silicon.com 2/3/01: 'Unworkable' Snooping laws delayed for third time

Guardian 1/3/01: In sight of the law

Financial Times 1/3/01: Richard Woods ISP public affairs adviser

Guardian 1/3/01: Spot the difference

Prospect  3/01: LETTER from FIPR in reply to Microsoft's Money - ...Others
can judge whether, in calling RIP's opponents "libertarian", Mr.Carr told us
more than he intended about his own beliefs.

Scotsman 26/2/01: BCC boss warns of red tape threat

Computing 26/2/01: Philip Virgo - Whatever happened to broadband?

Scotland on Sunday 25/2/01: Watch out for the dangers of a wired world

Irish Times 23/2/01: Pretty good encryption man joins Hush team

NTK 23/2/01: To the GOVERNMENT GATEWAY Website: ... CHAMBERSIGN...s a system
run by Viacode, with "key recovery" built in. You get to generate your
signature key. Your encryption key, though, is created by Viacode - and they
keep backups. So if you use it for communicating securely, someone,
somewhere, could  silently obtain your key from Viacode and monitor
you....the ChamberSign FAQ: "while ...a ChamberSign digital signature will
stand up in a court of law, the PGP digital signature is unlikely to". PGP:
perfectly legal, just not supported under this government.

Industry Standard 21/2/01: Is Blair's net full of holes?  - John Kampfner
Party strategists are piqued by the reluctance of dotcom glitterati to join
rock stars and other celebrities in spreading the New Labour message in an
openly partisan way. For its part, the Internet industry is becoming
disenchanted with Labour, not least because of the controversial Regulation
of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which many view as clumsy and
authoritarian....
Lord Haskins [in the recent report from his Better Regulation Task Force...]
also pointed to the damage that could be done by RIPA, arguing that, if
other countries did not introduce similar legislation, "Net operators might
relocate". But no ground will be given here. One government aide commented:
"The Net arose from anarchic origins; it has an anarchic ethos. We need to
do what we can to ensure it's channelled carefully." Internet entrepreneurs
have yet to achieve anything like the political clout of the captains of the
old economy – a price they may be paying in part for their reluctance to be
New Labour cheerleaders.

Guardian 19/2/01: MoD inquiry into 'privacy breach' - Ministry of Defence
police have ordered an internal inquiry into allegations that its officers
extracted private information stored on a mobile phone of an anti-nuclear
protester... to determine whether the information was taken in accordance
with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.

Silicon.com 15/2/01: Kournikova filters could be illegal

Times 14/2/01: FYI

ComputerWeekly 9/2/01: Privacy, what privacy?
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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