Re: Data retention question

In article <53D2BC1B.8040501-g71SGemCErzWGSWJAA5K4bVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>, James Harrison 
<[email protected]> writes

 >Do you value your safety more than you value your liberty?

It's not a simplistic tradeoff. If I have a kidnapper's knife to my 
throat and the only way the police can find me is by geo-locating my 
phone, then I think I'd rather be alive and findable than dead and not.

>for people whose
>lives are increasingly online, DRIP/RIPA's retention laws are
>equivalent to almost precisely that (metadata ~= content, in the
>context of things like addresses of websites you visit - "oh, visited
>http://some-specific-page.com/path.html - but that's all we know, no
>way we can get the content of the message there").

Just to answer this technical point: in theory the part after the first 
"/" should not be handed over to investigators. As an anonymising 
formula it's a bit crude, but hundreds of hours of work seemed to show 
there was nothing better, and it's also better than nothing, which was 
where we started the discussion.
-- 
Roland Perry