Telegraph article on RIP

[Roland Perry]

In article <4847AA4D.19383.4A6866@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
><http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2075026/Council-snoopers-access-900-phone-bills.html>

        "When Ripa was passed in 2000, only nine organisations,
        including the police and security services, were allowed to use
        it, but that number has since risen to 792, including 474
        councils"

Sums up their perspective on this. The number of public authorities
required to use RIPA for comms data was never in any doubt, and the only
real remaining debate is whether or not it's better for them to be doing
it through the processes laid down in RIPA, or ad-hoc using DPA 29/3
(and often somewhat imagined "legacy powers" under a host of earlier
legislation).

It's interesting that this article is more about RIPA to gain comms data
(mainly reverse DQ I expect, and I can't get too excited if the most
active council has done all of 89 requests in a year) than previous ones
that have been about councils now required to use RIPA surveillance
rules when previously there were no rules at all.
-- 
Roland Perry