links to 800 news stories on RIP/encryption/carnivore
*) (European Convention on) Human Rights law and encryption/interception
*) CoE draft Cybercrime convention
*) Resources, briefings, and related legislation in other countries
Suggestions for extra links always appreciated.
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Caspar Bowden
y problem with the
burden-of-proof issue in RIP on key possession.
21/11/00 EPIC Statement on Carnivore Report - Provides No
Reassurance On Monitoring System's Potential For Abuse
17/11/00 FIPR and JUSTICE response to consultation on draft
Code of Practice on
bet they are saying "crap idea for
corroborating innocence, but handy for eliminating bogus appeals by the
guilty"
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Caspar Bowden Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:www.fipr.org/rip#media
6.8 RETENTION O
Please link any story to Web Press Release at
http://www.fipr.org/ecommpr.html
Regards
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Tel: +44(0)171 354 2333 Fax: +44(0)171 827 6534
FOUNDATION FOR INFORMATION POLICY RESEARCH
ses, which would include the "failing-to-comply" and "tipping-off"
offences. So it might literally be a case of tell-it-to-the-judge
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Caspar Bowdenhttp://www.fipr.org
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
Tel: +44(0)171 354 2333 Fax: +44(0)171 827 6534
f digital signatures.
Provisional Programme :
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09.25 Welcome - Caspar Bowden, FIPR
09:30 Internet Service Providers Association (invited)
Alliance for Electronic Business: Progress towards self-regulation
10:00 "Cryptography, privacy and information warfare"
> HOT TIP, I would like to announce a new invention of mine the "Secret
> Message Service". This is a free service delivered from my new web site
> at:
> www.javacrypt.com.
>
> Also while browsing tech news sites to announce my new invetion I
> noticed that the
> hackertimes.com web site has been
material when a crime is suspected. To ensure compliance with human rights
standards, the Government must re-think this part of the Bill."
Caspar Bowden, Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research,
said:
"The government is attempting to bolt decryption powers for the intern
r decryption keys or the
plain text of specified materials, such as e-mails, and jail those who
refuse.
The government believes it has built sufficient safeguards into the
legislation. But Caspar Bowden, from the Foundation for Information Policy
Research, said the law as drafted was "im
earch, an internet thinktank.
The bill will allow people to be imprisoned for up to two years and fined
for refusing to either provide a decryption key or a plain text version of
the intercepted message.
Caspar Bowden, director of the FIPR, said Britain had become "the only
country in t
lodge copies of security keys
with third parties approved by government.
"This law could make a criminal out of anyone who uses encryption to protect
their privacy on the Internet," said FIPR director Caspar Bowden.
Following the recent liberalization of U.S. encryption software e
parliamentary bill in Britain that increases the
powers of surveillance by the intelligence services"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/635000/audio/_638041_episcipo.ram
For more information on RIP see http://www.fipr.org/rip/index.html
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13:30
what it is entitled to see
under warrant. The legislation (the "RIP" Bill) would allow this, and also
not require any warrant to capture traffic data (e.g. logs of websites
visted).
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Caspar Bowden Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:www.fipr.org/rip#media
Web version at http://www.fipr.org/rip/PR3RHC.htm
News Release
Tue 9th May 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Contact:Caspar Bowden
(director of FIPR)
+44 (0)20 7354 2333
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www.fipr.org/rip
There will be a short report on the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Bill on NBC Nightly News 6:30 EST Saturday. Please distribute to those that
might be interested
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Caspar Bowden Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information
watch the websites you are browsing in real time
Caspar Bowden, Foundation for Information Policy Research
If the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill is passed, internet
service providers will be forced to install black boxes in their data
centres that connect directly to an MI5 monitor
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,330725,00.html
Father of the web lashes snooping Bill
Jamie Doward
Sunday June 11, 2000
Tim Berners-Lee, regarded as the father of the world wide web, has launched
a blistering attack on government plans to give the security services
sweeping powers
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