FC: U.K. parliament approves RIP bill, businesses go offshore?

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

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>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:34:21 +0200
>To: declan@well.com
>From: Tor Fosheim <tfosheim@online.no>
>Subject: Britain passes Carnivore Plus
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>Declan,
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>With all lights on carnivore in the US, the brits have quietly passed 
>something much worse through parliament.
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>tor fosheim
>oslo
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>http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/100347
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>Steven Mathieson  27 Jul 2000
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>RIP: the final analysis
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>It all ended last night, without a vote, in the House of Commons. The 
>Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, which sets out powers for 
>tapping Internet traffic, is waiting for the formality of Royal Assent, 
>but will probably get that within the next few days. And the UK's 
>ebusinesses will start deciding on damage limitation exercises to cope 
>with legislation that many think is disastrous.
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>One Internet service provider (ISP), Poptel, said this week it is "pretty 
>likely" that it will move part of its operation outside the UK - probably 
>by locating a mail server offshore to handle encrypted email. "There is 
>likely to be a time when some of our users, for perfectly legal reasons, 
>will want this facility," said Shaun Fensom, the Internet service 
>provider's chairman.
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>Others may well do the same. Goldman Sachs, one of the world's leading 
>investment banks, told Internet think tank the Foundation for Information 
>Policy Research (FIPR) that it was considering the move of its encryption 
>key system from the UK, its main non-US office, to Switzerland.
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>"I think people are rubbing their eyes," said Caspar Bowden, director of 
>FIPR. "They can't quite believe the Government are doing this, but they 
>are." The concerns
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