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Originally Posted by Deko
Anyone care to comment on this from here http://www.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=14453044ferdinandling - 18 Apr'08 - 21:00 - 1441 of 1441
Don't know who the RIPA expert was. His name was Casper something. The chairman (previous chairman of FIPR) knew him by name and explained to the audience that eh was probably the world's leading light with regard to RIPA. He agreed that the system was legal under that law. |
Sounds like Caspar Bowden, the chair of FIPR before Ian Brown.
He's been very active in the legal and privacy spheres for years and a google on his name returns 13,100 results.
Found this interesting
BBC article from 2000 regarding the targeting of adverts to mobile phones (known as Location Based Services) that seems to contradict his current stance:
Consumers should have the option to decide what advertisements they want or how often they receive them, as well as the chance to turn off the facility, he says.
No such thing as a free lunch
Even if this information isn't used to market unwelcome promotions to you, somewhere there sits a mass of data that paints a picture of your life, argue campaigners.
With the new powers received under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, many government organisations can get their hands on this data without any judicial or Home Secretary authorisation.
"The privacy risk is that once the information is available on a non-warranted basis, anyone who really wants to find exactly where you went [can], it is just going to be a question of paying money to private investigators," the Foundation for Information Policy Research's Caspar Bowden said.
"What we are talking about is the invasion of privacy and restriction on civil liberties by this information being available as a tool of surveillance."
This "enables this tool to be put on half the population. It is like putting an electronic tag on half the population," he added.
Wonder if he's saying now that Webwise-style wire-tapping is legal but ought to be outlawed?