Telegraph article on RIP

[David Hansen]

On 6 Jun 2008 at 10:13, Ian Batten wrote:

> >> I personally witnessed a terminal in a police station incident room
> >> (right next to the PNC terminal) that had direct access to BT's full
> >> DQ listings in use circa 1987.
> >
> > So far nobody has come up with councils doing this sort of thing.
> 
> How do you think trading standards operated before RIPA?

Presumably they asked British Uselesscom, providing them with enough 
information to justify release of the information. Or are you telling 
me that British Uselesscom provided terminals in all/some council 
offices for officials to look this information up on a whim.

Did council officials ever stalk families and make detailed notes on  
children (notes which are probably illegal under all sorts of "child 
protection" laws and would probably land someone outside the tent in 
prison)? I doubt it. I suspect they only started to do this when 
encouraged by the Home Office as part of its open prison/East Germany 
approach to ensuring us plebs don't have any independence of thought or 
action.



-- 
  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