BBC News Online: 'Snoop' plans put on hold

[Owen Blacker]

Owen Lewis, quoting Richard Clayton, quoting Owen again(?):
>
>>> Yes and yes. If that is all they need, then fine. However, that is not
>>> what the HO has tried to get for them and AFAIK not one of them held
>>> up its hand's and said, "We don't need these powers".
>>
>> readers of cam.misc have been told that Cambridge Council didn't want
>> them :)  ... however, it was unclear how they could have achieve this!
> 
> That's good to hear. However, it would be far more re-assuring if they
> (and others) had circulated widely a press release disclaiming any need
> of or wish to possess such powers as were proposed. I don't believe
> they did (or were such releases simply ignored?).
> 
> It would also be interesting to know whether the CC wimped on cam.misc
> before or after the brown stuff hit the fan. I truly do not know but
> I'll bet a pint of beer with you that it was only after the brown stuff
> was already flying horizontally.

Well, that'd depend on your definition of when "the brown stuff hit the
fan", wouldn't it?  :o)

Information that a council had made such a statement (I don't know if it was
Cambridge or not) was on http://www.stand.org.uk/ on June 13
<http://www.stand.org.uk/weblog/archive/2002/06/13/000194.php>.  I've a
feeling that FIPR may have mentioned it in a release around the same time
but, as one of the Stand guys, I've lost track of what I read where in the
last coupla weeks  *GRIN*

By my reckoning, I think you owe Richard a pint, Owen  :oP

Hth,


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