On 09/02/2015 00:27, Paul Mansfield wrote:
On 8 February 2015 at 20:18, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
On 08/02/2015 18:56, Rod Beck wrote:
How is terrorism defined?
"anything we don't like".
just as the Civil Contingencies act allowed the gov't to do what they
want on the basis of a "threat", so calling something terrorism will
allow the gov't to target telecommunications providers at will.
One worrying phrase in the proposal is that the Act is can be used in
the *detection* of crime. This implies to me that a warrant can be
issued for the interception of traffic that is not known or suspected of
be being used for criminal purposes - ie. they can intercept normal
traffic and scan it to detect a crime.
If a warrant can be issued in such circumstances then the safeguards do
not safeguard anything.
Steve
