No hiding place for fly tippers

[Roger Hird]

In article <002301c86672$12faa460$891a313e@Powerstation>,
   M J D Brown <mjdb@dorevale.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In his apologia published in the Daily Telegraph on Friday 1st February 
> Sir Paul Kennedy claims that reports of phones being tapped at the rate 
> of 1000 each day are misleading and likely to cause unnecessary concern. 
> He bases that assertion on the narrow legalistic distinction between 
> interception and the collection of data.

> Readers of this list are, of course, entirely familiar with such 
> logic-chopping spin, but I suggest that the proverbial man on the 
> Clapham omnibus will recognise that his private business is being 
> 'intercepted' when information provided solely for the purpose of making 
> and paying for a communications service is obtained by people for whom 
> such information is not intended. 

As long as the claim is that the 1,000 calls per diem are "taped" I
disagree - I think the proverbial man in the street wld have a very clear
picyure of what taping calls involves - and it wouldn't be the same as
supplying copies of call records.

-- 
Roger Hird
roger.hird@argonet.co.uk

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