--- From: CBeckat_private Subject: Do as I say, not do as I do - UK edition To: declanat_private Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:26:13 -0400 So ... in the UK companies don't have the right to police their employees' emails even if they have reasonable cause to believe that the email is personal. http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3IHT5EOZC&live=true&tagid=FTDDMJNIFEC&subheading=internet%20and%20e-commerce But in the UK the gov't thinks it's entirely reasonable to require all ISPs to record all traffic. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293489,00.html as linked to by http://www.cyber-rights.org/news/index.htm Oh well. -- -Chris Beck - Coradiant, Inc - Research & Development - +1.514.908.6314- -- www.coradiant.com - Technical foresight driving Internet economics -- ------- This email represents my opinion, not that of Coradiant. ------- Opinions of bureaucrats do not create wrongs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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