'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <501ad5dfb5ukcrypto@vigay.com>, Paul Vigay
<ukcrypto@vigay.com> writes

>Out of interest, does anyone have any links to the actual government
>papers/legislation which states all this. 

The consultation on the transposition of the EU Directive is at

        http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2008-transposition

The consultation on the Interception Modernisation Programme (or at
least on the proposed Communications Data Bill) is expected to launch in
the first week of February...

...  I make the distinction between the IMP and CDB because I expect a
lot of the interest to be in the easy-to-understand question of whether
or not the comms data should be stored on a central database. However,
the really significant proposal of IMP is the mass deployment of Deep
Packet Inspection equipment (and/or flow monitoring systems) to allow
centralised monitoring and collection of traffic data... where that
traffic data may be at many different layers in the stack  (eg: picking
apart the SMTP protocol for people who don't use the ISP's server; or
analysing the x/y/z coordinates of avatars in Second Life !)

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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