'Today' considers data retention and IMP

Benjamin Donnachie ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:34:34 +0000


2009/1/9 Chris Edwards <chris-ukcrypto@lists.skipnote.org>:
> I have recent experience of a case where uk.police served a notice (RIPA
> s22 I assume) on UK offices of a very large far-eastern email provider,
> and got the comms data they wanted - which I'm pretty confident was
> physically held abroad.

In my experience, major non-UK email providers will assist the UK
police even though the police probably aren't entitled to the data.

Ben