"Warrants authorising phone taps treble"

Caspar Bowden ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:43:25 +0000


>From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.=
greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
..
>>>It was made very clear that authorisations are for getting the same data
>>>that a CSP would normally provide, but in those limited circumstances
>>>when a CSP wasn't able to do the job itself.

>>When? Where? By whom?

>Anyone interpreting 22(3): "conduct to which this Chapter applies" ?

Why is that relevant (to the scenario which you snipped)? It cross referenc=
es proportionality (sought to be achieved yada yada), but we were discussin=
g whether it is legally *possible* to acquire comms data in the way I descr=
ibed.

Are you implicitly conceding that it is possible, if an agency bod thinks i=
t is proportionate?

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Caspar Bowden