FW: [Apc-euroir-ws] "RIP Act" could result in massive surveil lance -- BBC

[Owen Blacker]

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Caspar, quoting Ken Brown:
>
> > It is not practicable to determine that a message is UK<->UK.
> 
> To discuss this, need to read the (immensely confusing, double-negative
> strewn) S.16 (http://www.fipr.org/rip/ripa2000.htm#16)
> 
> This says that although GCHQ scoops up all sorts of raw material under
> 8(4) trawling warrants, the analysts cannot lawfully look for 
> material using a search term (keyword, name, e-mail address) 
> relating to someone they know is in the UK....
> 
> ...UNLESS the Secretary of States signs a (totally new with 
> RIP) "over-ride" certificate, that for the first time allows 
> GCHQ to look for targets inside UK using trawling 
> mass-surveillance (apart from terrorists - allowed by IOCA 
> 85, cf. FIPR analysis passim).
> 
> [deletia]

Don't forget that the Terrorism Act 2000 rather dramatically widens the
definition of who is a terrorist and what constitutes terrorism.


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