BBC News Online: 'Snoop' plans put on hold

[Roland Perry]

In message <5.1.0.14.0.20020619190721.00a68790@194.62.44.61>, Nicholas
Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> writes
>Part of the solution would be to limit the rights of any wider group of
>bodies (which in any case needs trimming) to access to the name and
>address of the relevant comms system subscriber.
>
>This must be all most of them ever want or need; most of them wouldn't
>know what to do with real traffic data, whose use ought to be much more
>closely managed; and 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.

This was, of course, also why we successfully lobbied for the data to be
put in these three categories. And the Social Security Fraud Act only
allowed the Benefits Agency investigators to the two least intrusive of
the three RIPA Comms Data types. RIPA itself allows the Sec of State to
make these distinctions when compiling lists of public authorities and
authorised persons.
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