Re: [Raven] FT 11/2/2000: "BIG BROTHER: Government unveils e-mail surveillance law"

Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com> Fri, 11 February 2000 16:26 UTC

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:11:26 +0000
To: Caspar Bowden <cb@fipr.org>
From: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: [Raven] FT 11/2/2000: "BIG BROTHER: Government unveils e-mail surveillance law"
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At 08:14 AM 2/11/00 +0000, Caspar Bowden wrote:
>Jack Straw, the home secretary, insisted none of the powers in the bill were
>new. "Covert surveillance by police and other law enforcement officers is as
>old as policing itself," Mr Straw said. "What is new is that for the first
>time the use of these techniques will be properly regulated by law".

Humph!  The way I see it, for the first time the *targets* of such use will 
be "properly regulated by law" :-(

#g

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