By Jo Best
Published: Monday 27 October 2003
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Anonymous
Location
uk
Occupation
engineer
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Under IOCA (Interception of Telecommunications Act), any person or department requiring to tap a phone has to apply to the minister (Home sec I think) and each application has to be individually agreed. This generally means that interceptions are only targeted against possible threat sources. If this was applied to email, then ISP's wouldn't need masses of additional storage; they could just automatically forward any email of targeted threats directly to the agency requesting them provided an IOCA authorisation was in force. The rest of us then wouldn't be under the threat of Big Bro without reasonable suspicion. It's yet another example of "Guilty until proven innocent" thinking.
Anon
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