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Re: Poll: for/against Net surveillance in UK Anti-Terrorism law ?

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:56
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In article <3C1BA1E2.D4EFAA5D@zhochaka.demon.co.uk>, David G. Bell
<dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> writes

>Richard Clayton wrote:
>> 
>> In article <jlHS7.107$7v6.186801@monolith.news.easynet.net>, pisces
>> <pisces48@yahoo.com> writes
>> 
>> >A police Super (or
>> >equivalent spook or Customs), can on his own authority without a warrant,
>> >order up traffic data on one person or a million, if HE thinks that is
>> >"proportionate".
>> 
>> he will also need to have the budget to pay for this ... so the
>> accountants may help to keep his sense of proportion in check
>
>But the technology keeps getting more powerful for the same money, 

the cost is for access to the stored data ... which, where there are low
volumes of requests, is mainly a manual process

hence the cost of suddenly asking for millions of records will be many
millions ... and I do appreciate your point that over time you'll get
more data for your Euro -- but in the short term this is likely to be a
significant brake on the expansion of activities

-- 
richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin
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From: Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com>
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Subject: Re: Poll: for/against Net surveillance in UK Anti-Terrorism law ?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:56:22 +0000
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