Sending data abroad

[Kevin Townsend]

Out of interest, how does SACC get a 'dangerous' rating from WOT?


> On 20 Feb 2009 at 12:03, Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>
>> Some governments see the problem:  "Ottawa recalls sensitive database in
>> B.C. border project - The federal government is repatriating a database
>> of personal information about Canadian citizens after warnings the U.S.
>> government might misuse it."
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> Good to see that some goverments have woken up from their  sleepwalk.
> Not all have done though.
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> Having decided to give a contract to those involved in torture at Abu
> Ghraib, the Scottish Government has been busy trying to claim that the
> data will not be passed to the USA [1] [2]. They must think we are more
> stupid than we look.
>
> However, the Scottish Government is privy to attempts by the torturers
> to prevent this information being revealed to the public [3].
>
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> [1] their assertion is, "GROS will own all Scottish census data. The
> data will be processed in Scotland and remain here at all times in both
> paper and electronic formats. Only British and Irish registered
> companies will have access to personal census data - no US company has
> any access to the data."
>
> <http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=624&catid=
> 33>
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> [2] "The Scottish Government says it "understands the views" of people
> who have written to it about the contract. It says it has set up a new
> "contract structure" to "distance" CACI from personal data collected by
> the census. But it refuses to cancel the contract."
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> <http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=605&catid=
> 29>
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> [3] "Members of SACC have been targetted with legal threats in letters
> dated 10th and 17th September from lawyers acting for CACI
> International. The material complained of is still on our website, as
> is an online petition calling for the contract to be cancelled. No
> legal action has yet been forthcoming and we are confident that our
> website sets out the facts of the matter fairly. But we are
> disappointed, to say the least, to find that an arm of the Scottish
> Government has been privy to CACI's attempts to censor Scottish
> campaigners and Scottish media."
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> <http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=627&catid=
> 27>
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>   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
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