BBC News Online: 'Snoop' plans put on hold

[David Hansen]

On 19 Jun 2002 at 19:13, Nicholas Bohm wrote:

> This must be all most of them ever want or need; most of them wouldn't
> know what to do with real traffic data,

An ISP tells me that they did give the police something along those 
lines once, years ago, after suitable steps had been taken to ensure 
this was reasonable. The police were completely baffled by it.

> most subscribers wouldn't regard disclosure
> of their name and address as an excessive intrusion if the system
> ensured that there were reasonable grounds for seeking it.

The question is what the system is.





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