A decision on Lord Bassam's doormat!

[Roland Perry]

In message <ltdqtgICRp28EA+9@highwayman.com>, Richard Clayton 
<richard@highwayman.com> writes
>Whilst RIP was going through the Lords, the Government minister (Lord
>Bassam) indicated that when it reached his doormat, then it was subject
>to simple search, but that prior to that it was interception.

ICBW, but speaking from memory I think the doormat was used when 
discussing the point at which a member of the public could legally 
re-address a letter (to, for example, a forwarding address of a previous 
tenant). In that context, at least this view of where the doormat is 
perhaps answers some questions we had about the legality of asking 
sysadmins (or their robots) to forward [other people's] emails to 
different places.

Incidentally, the policy to allow production orders to access mail 
stored at ISPs has been endorsed by the Interception Commissioner.
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