RIPA and file-sharing??

[David Hansen]

On 1 Feb 2008 at 9:32, Watkin Simon wrote:

> That's because failing to deal with a Court Order is a contempt of Court.
> Failing to deal with a RIPA notice isn't - it wasn't designed to be.  By
> requiring disclosure it was designed so the CSP no longer had to make the
> decision to disclose data as happened pre-RIPA under the DPA.

If I had any belief in the "Open Government" provisions down south I 
might ask where the pressure for this change came from. I can see the 
large telecom companies being very keen on such a change.

However, another arm of government down south is trying its hardest to 
prevent release of very simple information to me about who was in 
favour of a change. I doubt very much if the regulator will lift his 
little finger on the matter.


-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54