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Originally Posted by Toto
I hope you're right, because currently under RIPA the police can request account details based on IP address with date/time without going to the courts, this is what the RIPA act is all about.
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The problem is that if a prosecution depended on it the police would have to show that all the evidence had been collected in accordance with all the relevant legislation or else risk a clever defence lawyer convincing a judge that it should be ruled as inadmissible.
This has happened on several occasions were the police prosecution case has relied on evidence collected from mobile phone wire taps carried out without a warrant and so deemed illegal.