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The Paris G8 summit was a grave disappointment

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9 August 2000

Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:43:08 +0100 To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk From: gus <i.hosein@lse.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Observer Front Page: Police to track mobile phone users

The Paris G8 summit was a grave disappointment if we want to consider it as 'public'. I want to be as thorough as possible, so please excuse the length of this email.

Attendees? Industry and government. That was all. That was the mandate; when I protested to my own delegation (I managed to squeeze myself in to another country's delegation) about the lack of the 'other', I was quickly quietened down by a response: "This is the first time we have actually invited outside people, and it was decided to be industry." My colleagues raised this point at every occasion we could, and it was alarmingly ignored.

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