'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901091613260.4958@localhost.localdomain>,
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> writes

>On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, John Wilson wrote:
>
>> When the government has spent the tens of billions of pounds to 
>> install the black boxes to do deep packet inspection a Gmail user
>
>Google have significant business activities in EU. What reason is 
>there to think they will not comply with this directive?

Well it doesn't apply to them:

consider s3 of the draft transposition into UK law:

    3. These Regulations apply to communications data if, or to the
    extent that, the data are generated or processed in the United
    Kingdom by public communications providers in the process of
    supplying the communications services concerned.

>Further, even if they did not comply directly with the directive, is 
>there reason to think they would not comply with legal requests for 
>logged information?

I have no doubt that Google will respond correctly to legal requests
made to them within their jurisdiction -- perhaps as a result of a
Mutual Legal Assistance request from another country.

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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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