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UK E-Commerce Business Alert

------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Brian Gladman <brian.gladman@btconnect.com> To: ukcrypto <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk> Subject: UK E-Commerce Business Alert Date sent: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:48:01 +0100 Send reply to: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk

UK E-COMMERCE BUSINESS ALERT ------------------------------------------------

I have put up a page at:

http://www.btinternet.com/~brian.gladman/rip.html

as a preliminary warning to companies about the need to consider RIP legislation before they create an e-commerce presence in the UK.

I have advised all such companies not to abandon plans for such a presence but to put their plans on hold until the situation with RIP legislation becomes clearer. I have also advised companies to develop contingency plans for locating in Ireland or Germany in the event that RIP is enacted without significant change.

I have also put up the following document:

http://www.btinternet.com/~brian.gladman/res.pdf

as a response to the Home Office comments on a number of aspects of the report written for the British Chamber of Commerce by the London School of Economics on the economic impact of RIP.

My comments show, in particular:

1) That the Home Office suggestion that there are 'major inaccuracies' in the business risks identified in this report is completely flawed. Moreover, it is disingenuous, since these risks cannot be quantified as a direct result of the Home Office refusal to provide the information needed to do this.

2) The Government has admitted that information that it classifies as SECRET will not be protected to the standards that it sets for such information because the costs would be too high. In effect other people's information will not be treated with the same care as the Government treats its own information.

I hope that people on this list will develop links to this page so that they can help to alert companies to the actions of the UK Government in seeking to undermine the safety, security and privacy of UK citizens and UK located businesses with this pernicious piece of legislation.

Dr Brian Gladman (http://www.gladman.uk.net)

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