Telegraph article on RIP

[Ian Batten]

On 05 Jun 08, at 1408, David Hansen wrote:

> On 5 Jun 2008 at 12:28, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
> Im don't believe that the council in Birmingham would have done any of
> this had they not been egged on by the numbskulls in the Home Office.

Disagree.   In the past, reverse DQ was done on a nod and a wink basis  
between what you would calls bods in councils / large companies / law  
enforcement / spooks and what you would call bods in BT / GPO.    We  
have no idea if the current regime reflects a lesser or a greater  
number of such requests, simply because the previous regime generated  
no audit trail.  Itemised bills, caller data: all these things were,  
again, just handed over with no controls.

ian