Child abuse unit paying for data

David Hansen ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:04:53 -0000


On 21 Jan 2009 at 11:15, ken wrote:

> Presumably if Parliament had wanted ISPs to donate 
> all their records whatsoever to the government so that they 
> could be searched for patterns of online behaviour that might 
> show children doing things that make themselves unsafe in 
> future, then Parliament could have passed a law requiring them 
> to do that.  But I don't think they did.

Is that not exactly what the Home Office are trying to do at the 
moment?

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/interception_modernisation_anal
ysis/>
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