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Originally Posted by ceedee
They already can -- that's what was behind RIPA.
But co-opting Phorm would enable them to detect keywords or access to specific websites across the entire datastream from participating ISPs.
(Some of which they allegedly can do already using the NSA's Echelon.)
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Firstly Echelon is not NSA it is a joint project between several european countires the US and iirc Australia.
Secondly Echelon does not profile anything. It is a mass data gathering tool, all it does it warehouse the data other than that they data is only used when it is queried (usually based on national security issues or international terrorism). The data is not neatly categorised by person or anything like that, it is a chaotic data dump that takes time and effort to get any really usable information from it. At least that is my understanding of it and I have been reading as much as I can find about Echelon for several years now.
Finally even with Phorm in place the Police etc. would -still- require a warrant in order to access their technology otherwise even if they did find something it is unlikely the evidence would be admissible in court.
Alexander Hanff