Child abuse unit paying for data

[Roland Perry]

In article <49770F65.22050.A171549@info.foe-fife.org.uk>, David Hansen 
<info@foe-fife.org.uk> writes
>> 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_analysis/>

The Home Office is apparently wanting to collect its own data on who is 
contacting who. But they'll still need the current system of asking the 
ISP "what's this chap's real name and where does he live" when they have 
identified a person of interest identified only by his IP address at the 
time.
-- 
Roland Perry