Labour supports email spy policy

[Matthew 'RCPS' Astley]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:54:49AM +0100, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jei wrote:
> > Labour supports email spy policy

> This seems utterly ludicrous - the post-office isn't obliged to open
> and copy all my postal correspondence; I fail to see that the contents of
> my electronic correspondence are in any way substantially different.

I believe the main difference is you can't send cash by email - at
least, not easily and without third parties. Nor can you send bombs or
whathaveyou.

Five years before they intercept snailmail too, just to make the law
"more consistent"?


Matthew  #8-)