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A Year Ago: Government plans e-surveillance
News At the heart of the surveillance debate is the proposed Interception of Communications Act, which, if it is made law, will give the police access to all electronic communications. IOCA (Interception of Communications Act) was drawn up in 1985...
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance
News At the heart of the surveillance debate is the proposed Interception of Communications Act, which, if it is made law, will give the police access to all electronic communications. IOCA (Interception of Communications Act) was drawn up in 1985...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
UK comms-snooping requests top half a million
News The figure was published in the annual report of the interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. Kennedy also reported that the total number of warrants for the interception of communications, such as tapping telephone calls, rose...
[July 24, 2008, 9:23]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance - Part 2
News At the heart of the surveillance debate is the proposed Interception of Communications Act (IOCA), which, if it is made law, will give the police access to all electronic communications. Warrants for interception have previously been issued only by...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
News Burst: Home Office wants snoop powers for comms
News The consultative paper published today is intended to modernise the Interception of Communications Act of 1985 according to Home Secretary Jack Straw. Under the proposals Internet Service Providers will be required to ensure their systems are 'open...
[June 22, 1999, 17:21]
Gov't web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News The London Internet Exchange (Linx), which counts ISPs among its 330-plus internet partners, on Tuesday severely criticised the government's plans, known as the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP).
[August 4, 2009, 15:55]
How to spot Echelon listening stations
News In its draft report into the Echelon communications interception network, the European Parliament provided a guide to identifying Echelon listening stations. Interception stations are not. The reason that the European Parliament's own rapporteur...
[May 29, 2001, 16:12]
Experts: Gov't web-monitoring plan is unworkable
News The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) calls for internet service providers to record the traffic details of all web communications. Not only are a multiplicity of web protocols used by different companies, Sommer said, but those protocols...
[June 18, 2009, 12:34]
Home Office denies prototype intercept database
Blog As part of the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the government has been considering whether to propose a centralised database to store the traffic details of all communications of all UK citizens.
[April 7, 2009, 17:34]
Public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News The requests averaged out at about 1,500 a day, according to the report by interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. In December, the Home Office said it would launch a consultation, following revelations that local councils had...
[August 10, 2009, 16:19]
Wiretapping may cost ISPs £17m - report
News Commissioned by the government, the Smith Report, entitled "Technical and Cost Issues Associated With Interception of Communications at Certain Communication Service Providers" outlines three possible ways ISPs could intercept email communications...
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
UK police ask for traffic data from ISPs
News The request refers only to logs of emails sent and received since 11 September -- a separate interception warrant would be needed to access the content of the emails. Data controllers are not legally obliged to hand over the requested traffic data...
[September 17, 2001, 14:02]
Industry lambasts snooping law costs
News The draft code of practice governs how law enforcement agencies should go about authorising warrants under Part I of the Act, which requires communications providers to maintain a permanent interception capability.
[April 30, 2002, 17:55]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News Ministers of the European Parliament were quite disturbed that this sort of interception happens in Europe, and that law enforcement authorities are requiring more powers in intercepting traffic data," said Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights...
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
ISPs face data interception deadline
News The interception capability is mandated by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was introduced to give police and other law enforcement authorities the same powers to intercept digital communications as they already possess to...
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
A Year Ago: Big Brother plans pushed through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
GCHQ denies developing mass surveillance tech
News The press statement said that GCHQ is in the process of developing technologies that are "designed to work under the existing legal framework", and that blanket interception would not be legal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa...
[May 5, 2009, 17:16]
Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee
News Secret surveillance and interception of all forms of communications including Internet communications, cannot be acceptable in democratic societies," the submission reads. While Cyber Rights welcomes the investigation into Echelon it also calls for...
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
RIPA demands push up ISP costs
News Where the service provider serves more than 10,000 people, to enable the simultaneous interception of communications of up to 1 in 10, 000 of those users; To ensure the interception of all communications and related traffic data authorised by the...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
