[FYI] (Fwd) UK to impose yet more nasty interception laws...

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

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Subject:       UK to impose yet more nasty interception laws...
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From:          "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date:          23 Jul 1999 13:02:33 -0400


>From "The Guardian" in the U.K.

 Straw insists on e-mail
 interception powers 

 Links, reports and background on the
 Freedom of Information debate 

 David Hencke, Westminster Correspondent 
 Friday July 23, 1999 

 Draconian powers to jail anybody for up to two
 years who discloses that their company's encrypted
 e-mails or electronic documents are being
 intercepted by the police, Customs or the security
 services are to be announced by the government
 today. 

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