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Originally Posted by Pasanonic
I appreciate That Alex is upset that some people have seemed disrespectful to Mr Davies and I hope I was not one of them as that was not my intention. but his ( SD) statements last night dismissing any talk of legality for the DPI system smacked to me of a whitewash and they should have arranged for legal counsel to be there as the legalities are the whole issue here.
However I thought,'benefit of the doubt'.
That was until I saw Mr Davies on the Channel 4 item today. It is clear from his comments given to 4 that he is clearly not an independent person working to produce just a PIA but was quite clear in his words that he is a supporter of the phorm system and is working to see that it is implemented for commercial gain. He did not appear in my view to be anything like the independent he keeps claiming to be.
So regardless of his work in the past with respect to 80/20 Thinking I personally shall be accepting that any further statements from them are to be treated as positive spin from a company with a vested interest in moving this technology into the mainstream.
Craig.
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I'm sorry, as I know that Alexander has great feelings of respect for Simon Davies but I also still feel very concerned.
Why does the problem exist? Because some people want to break the law. There is no imperative to seek any compromise with that position. I don't understand why Simon seems to feel bound find a "solution" - I thought he was running a privacy impact assessment process, not brokering some kind of compromise. There is no problem that we or anyone needs to find any solution to, other than just say "no" to interception.
Personally, I don't see what acceptable solution there could be: I can opt in until I am blue in the face, but how can I ever give consent on your behalf to the interception by my ISP of messages that you send me? That would be like saying, as long as I give consent, BT can tap your phone calls because you are talking to me. So even if I wanted to find a compromise, (which I don't), I don't see how there could be one that was legal.
For Simon to say he is sure a solution can be found is in effect to say that interception without consent can be legal. But there has not yet been a proper legal debate.
I repeat, I appreciate and respect Alexander's feelings about Simon Davies as a person, but I don't know Simon at all, and perhaps selfishly, what I really care about is not having to live with this grotesque invasion of my privacy and everyone else's.
And where did all this stuff about ISP funding come from, all of a sudden? That's a matter of policy and outside the scope of a PIA. It is, however, on-message as far as Kent's current sales pitch that "everyone can make money".