Re: UKNM: UK Internet Firms Aid Cops.

[Sajid Mohammed]

---Stefan Magdalinski <

stefanisness [dot] org

> wrote:

>

> Am I the only person who thinks that the behaviour of the ISPA and the

> ISPs involved is absolutely disgraceful?


Definitely. Neither ACPO nor ISPA are statutory bodies and therefore

are unaccountable as such. Private meetings will always inspire a fear

that the matters discussed are not to the benefit of the public. We do

not pay money to ISPs in order for them to sell our interests down the

river.


It's not only ACPO either - if you watched The Money Programme last

night, you will have seen that the record industry are trying to make

companies like BT responsible for pirated content online as publishers

as opposed to common carriers. Good luck - you are going to need it.


If ISPA continue to go down this road ad hoc, then all they will do is

create a new sector of ISPs who *guarantee* that your communications

will remain unmolested.


And if the Police are to intrude upon people's communications then

they need to realise that a) we need proper consultation before

legislation is drafted rather than meetings behind closed doors with

unelected representatives of the net community and b) net users are

far more cunning than the average career bureaucrat.


SM

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