Consultation Papers

Watkin Simon Simon.Watkin@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:01:06 -0000


> From: David Hansen [mailto:davidh@spidacom.co.uk]
> Sent: 11 March 2003 08:53
> 
> On 11 Mar 2003 at 8:34, Ian G Batten wrote:
> 
> > Amusingly, I saw (but didn't hear, as I don't use headphones in the
> > gym) the Sky coverage of this at about 0710 this morning.  The
> > strapline was `Snoopers Charter'.  Did anyone hear the actual text?
> 
> Radio 4 used the phrase, but said that this was what the last 
> proposals were called by "privacy advocates".
> 
> They said, presumably having seen the proposals as they will no doubt 
> have been provided to the mass media in the usual disgusting way, 
> that they "expected" the revised proposals to be "considerably 
> watered down". Time will tell.

If they had seen the proposals - which they haven't - the reporting might
have been a little more accurate than that I heard on R4 this morning.

Simon Watkin


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