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Politech is the oldest Internet resource devoted to politics and technology. Launched in 1994 by Declan McCullagh, the mailing list has chronicled the growing intersection of culture, technology, politics, and law. Since 2000, so has the Politech web site.
From the Politech archives: "UK proposal fails to make RIP act (even more) Draconian" http://www.politechbot.com/p-01861.html "UK think tank criticizes government crypto-key safeguards" http://www.politechbot.com/p-00962.html "U.K. parliament approves RIP bill, businesses go offshore?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-01296.html -Declan ******** http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1500000/1500889.stm By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward Wednesday, 22 August, 2001, 07:39 GMT Laws designed to catch computer criminals could result in a huge increase in the amount of covert surveillance carried out on British citizens by the police and intelligence services. The controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act requires many companies providing communication services to install technology that allows up to one in 10,000 of their customers to be watched at the same time. Experts and lobby groups fear that this requirement could drive a "tenfold" increase in the number of wiretaps and threaten the fundamental rights to privacy of many citizens. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------