If anyone wants our input into the Home Office re access to, and
retention of comminications data, please reply to this e-mail.
Basically we find the retention consultation document and access
document very unsatisfactory and in some cases misleading
Below is our first conclusion
Chris P
1. The Government has failed to lead a properly constructed debate
on privacy matters. There are essentially two main reasons for this:
* there are a number of serious omissions in both documents, the
effect of this, in our view, is to mislead the general public over the
privacy implications; and
* the issues of retention of communications data and of access to
communications data are wholly intertwined yet the Home Office has
artificially treated them as separate - and this creates further
difficulties for the general public in weighing the impact of the
proposals on individual privacy.
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