'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Caspar Bowden]

> admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Pete Mitchell
...
> Ten years ago, anyone who suggested the government would soon be doing
> this kind of stuff would be called a "conspiracy theorist".

...that jogged a memory ;-)

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Caspar Bowden


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4029468,00.html
Thursday June 15, 2000

...Conspiracy theorists must not be allowed to get away with the ridiculous=
 notion that law enforcement would or even could monitor all emails. The in=
telligence agencies have neither the inclination nor the resources, nor the=
 legal ability to monitor the massive amounts of electronic communications =
that flow through the UK every day. It does not happen with letters or tele=
phones and it will not with emails...

John Abbott
Director general, National Criminal Intelligence Service