Re: Draft Investigatory Powers Bill

Roland Perry <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:51:40 +0000

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In article <563A6CC0.2070904-1HOZaDBbGgxaa/[email protected]>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186-1HOZaDBbGgxaa/[email protected]> writes

>> JOOI, what has been already-found illegal about RIPAs rules for
>> disclosure of comms data?
>
>I was referring to the EU (digital rights ireland) and UK ([2015] EWHC 
>2092) supreme courts decisions that the then/present comms data 
>_retention_ regime was/is/are illegal.

Ah-ha! There's nothing about that sort of data retention in RIPA.

If commentators can't distinguish between data retention and data 
disclosure, then the debate is never going to get usefully off the
first base.
-- 
Roland Perry