Clearly there is a problem with the sensationalism of some of the coverage which suggests that this change in the law if passed will allow all these authorities access to everything (including the content of all e-mails). To me the threat seems to come from the lack of any serious system of scrutiny capable of dealing with the potential mountain of cases if the authorities involved (including the ones already covered in RIPA) decide that they're going to 'take these powers for a walk'. As a raft of legislation already suggests (e.g. DPA, HRA, health and safety), there is a major gap between rights of individuals to be protected from abuse in principle and the enforcement of those rights in practice through poorly resourced mechanisms.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Betty Willder [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:53 AM
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> Subject: Expansion of Investigatory Powers
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> Colette
> I saw this on yesterdays out-law.com website which gives maybe a less
> sensationalist view http://www.out-law.com/
> We had a brief discussion on the e-monitoring jisc mailing list yesterday
> and the info is now up on that archive if you want to have a look at it:
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/e-monitoring.HTML
>
> Betty Willder
> JISC Legal Information Service
>
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