In message <[log in to unmask]>,
at 09:06:03 on Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Ibrahim Hasan <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>The Home Office has agreed to meet civil liberties groups as part of a
>consultation it is conducting into UK interception laws.
>The Open Rights Group and other organisations are concerned that the
>consultation is being rushed through with minimum publicity.
The haste is apparently because the UK wants to implement the changes
(which are apparently intended to better regulate activity such as
behavioural advertising) before being taken to court by the EU.
>They want to see strong laws to protect citizens who have had their
>e-mail or web traffic collected without consent.
And so does the EU, which is why they are making the UK beef up this
law.
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11875043
<http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/consultations/ripa-effect-
lawful-intercep/>
Where one objective is to harmonise the idea of "consent" between DPA
and RIPA.
--
Roland Perry
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