Brit. ISP's say no to being eyes and ears of big borther

["Jose G. Perez" <jg_perez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Internet providers say no to Blunkett

Plans to monitor personal emails and web page visits in doubt

Stuart Millar, technology correspondent
Tuesday October 22, 2002
The Guardian

The internet industry has refused to sign up to plans to give law
enforcement and intelligence agencies access to the records of British web
and email users, throwing David Blunkett's post- September 11 data
surveillance regime into fresh disarray.

In the latest of a long line of setbacks for the home secretary's data
retention campaign, the Guardian has learned that internet service providers
have told the Home Office that they will not voluntarily stockpile the
personal records of their customers for long periods so that they can be
accessed by police or intelligence officers.

Nicholas Lansman, secretary general of the Internet Service Providers
Association, wrote to officials last month informing them that the industry
had not been convinced that extending the length of time companies hold on
to customer logs was necessary for the fight against terrorism and serious
crime.

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Full story here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,816523,00.html


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