Re: FW: U.K. Labour government backs 7-yr storage of email, phone calls
said Colin Watson (on 2001-05-23),
> Gudleik Rasch-Halvorsen <gudleik@nHn.no> wrote:
> >On 23-05-01 07:56, Troy Guinn wrote:
> >> From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com>
> >> > Labour supports email spy policy
> >> >
> >> > The government is backing EU plans to extend the state's power to
> >> > snoop at private emails.
> >> >
> >> > Under the proposals, all email communications will have to be
> >> > retained by ISPs for a seven-year period.
> >> >
> >> > "Only people who have something to hide should be worried," said a
> >> > spokesperson at the Department of Trade and Industry. "The
> >> > government will only have cause to browse emails if they have their
> >> > suspicions about a user.
> >> > They simply don't have the time or money to check every email
> >> > sent."
> >
> >Start using pgp now!
> >Then they can snoop around as much as they want :-)
>
> Doesn't help if you live in the UK, where failing to disclose your
> encryption key makes you guilty until proven innocent.
time for some serious steganography systems.
geordie.
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