BBC News Online: 'Snoop' plans put on hold

[Roland Perry]

In message
<fc.004c540101b223053b9aca0014c86ce7.1b22363@oufcnt2.open.ac.uk>, Andrew
Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk> writes
>What I think we have here is
>a situation in which people are now basically agreeing to the premise of
>RIPA and are now arguing about who should be on the list of people that
>are permitted access to the information. Wholescale snooping, fishing, and
>massive storage of all electronically transmitted information, however
>infeasible it may be to do it, seems to have been accepted by the public,
>thanks to the 'climbdown'.

Apart from the fact that RIPA outlaws such practices. Of course, we can
all argue for greater scrutiny. But if we presume a law that protects us
will be abused, what should it be replaced by? Another law that's
somehow less likely to be?
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