From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/05 (08:16) INTERNET `SNOOPING' MUST PRESERVE PRIVACY RIGHTS: WATCHDOG By Bob Roberts, Deputy Political Editor, PA News A security services watchdog today called for controls over new moves to intercept e-mails and communications over the Internet. According to reports today, a new Government interception centre will be built to help security services monitor the criminal use of the net. The Treasury is said to have allocated �25 million for the new centre in a move which has raised fear about the privacy of e-mails and electronic communication. Tom King, chairman of the Parliamentary Security and Intelligence Committee which oversees the work of intelligence agencies, acknowledged there were worries about the development. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that any Internet intercepts "must be under the sort of control we expect and they must protect individual rights to privacy". But he added that the security services should be allowed to develop new ways to monitor modern communications. "You have got new technology and we cannot have a situation where terrorist groups and serious criminal gangs can have a means of communication which is untouchable and completely secure and therefore security agencies need to find ways of intercepting them," he said. "The only perfect guarantee of privacy is to allow total secrecy for everybody. "I think it has been accepted by all that the overriding need to prevent terrorist outrages and serious offences means there does need to be the power for the police and others to intercept." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey Steve, New Cybershooters perhaps? Kenneth Pantling Whatever happens they have got The Maxim Gun, and we have not. -- Anyone suffering under the delusion that they have private communications I suggest look at the Communications Act for Ascension Island. Steve. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
