'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[John Wilson]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com> wrote:
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> ...  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 !)

Heard you on the Today program - very clear description of the issues,
well done.

Any idea if they have any plans to deal with people who use mail over
SSL? For example I use one Gmail account as web mail using https: and
another via my desktop client using  SMTP over SSL (which is the
default for GMail I think).

John Wilson