[thechat] UK Goverment Climbdown Over 'Snooping' Bill - Update

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Tue Jun 18 07:27:00 CDT 2002


Related:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25761.html
"UK snoop charter: we're already getting all the data anyway"


On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 01:10  pm, Garrett Coakley wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2051000/2051117.stm
>
> "David Blunkett has admitted he blundered with the controversial 'snoop'
> plans to give a raft of public bodies access to e-mail and mobile phone
> records.
>
> The proposals are to be put on hold indefinitely in the face of huge
> opposition, which the home secretary conceded his department totally
> failed to predict."
>
>
> It's a small victory, but I can see this one running and running.
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