RIPA Part III

[Pemble, Matthew]

Folks,

Ian suggested:

> So your argument is that because a risk society is comfortable with  
> (people using cars) is rendered unacceptable by drivers drinking,  
> it's OK to check drivers are not drunk as a condition of their using  
> cars?
> 
> Computers are a risk society is comfortable with, but it's rendered  
> unacceptable with people storing child pornography.  If you're in  
> favour of random tests of drivers (which are de jure illegal, but de  
> facto conducted), why would you object to random sampling of  
> computers to see if they contain child pornography?

Are we talking about random sampling - or are we talking about directed
checks where there is a "reasonable suspicion" that the owner or another
user of the computer may be storing child pornography?  I know that this is
not always applied by the police, but I though that "random breath testing"
was / had been not strictly correct and they needed some suspicion that you
might have been drinking (often trivialised to "It's Christmas",
unfortunately.)

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