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Parliament 'didn't understand RIP Act'

...agencies the right to intercept communications under RIPA, with the accompanying safeguards. Simon Watkin of the Home Office rejected suggestions that these statutory instruments should... Read more

6 November, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Data surveillance complaints have zero success rate

...access to private information about people's Internet and mobile phone habits. Simon Watkin of the Home Office told a Parliamentary meeting on Wednesday that... Read more

6 November, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award

...restricting legitimate European gaming sites. The Internet Hero shortlist is similarly controversial. Simon Watkin, the public face of the Home Office's work on the... Read more

4 January, 2007 by Richard Thurston

Why you should care about the RIP Act

With police officers poised to get the power to seize encryption keys, how will this affect you and your business? Read more

15 August, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Police want power to seize encryption keys

...out of UK jurisdiction so that they can't be seized. But Simon Watkin of the Home Office, who drafted the code of practice, insisted... Read more

15 August, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Government wants your view on encryption keys

...Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)," said Simon Watkin of the Home Office Covert Investigation Policy Team. The closing date... Read more

8 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Home Secretary to push ahead with data retention law

...Tiscali. Currently, ISPs negotiate individually with the government for data retention costs. Simon Watkin, a Home Office official working with the covert investigation policy team... Read more

11 January, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Verisign wins Internet Villain award

...at the ISPAs -- broken only last year by 2003 Internet Hero nominee Simon Watkin of the Home Office, who picked up the Villain award for... Read more

20 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...muttered that the Home Office was "talking bollocks". This was shortly after Simon Watkin of the HO was argued that it was better to widen... Read more

7 November, 2003

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...muttered that the Home Office was "talking bollocks". This was shortly after Simon Watkin of the HO was argued that it was better to widen... Read more

7 November, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

MP wins Internet Hero award

...of State David Blunkett's son Hugh, APIG, and Home Office official Simon Watkin, who ended up collecting the Internet Villain award on behalf of... Read more

21 February, 2003 by Matt Loney

Internet Hero nominee walks off with Villain award

...Villain, turned up to collect the department's prize. Ironically, the official, Simon Watkin, had been nominated for the Internet Hero award -- which he failed... Read more

21 February, 2003 by Matt Loney

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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apexwm

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