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Originally Posted by BetBlowWhistler
with all the FOI's going around it's hard to keep track, but has anyone asked if the ICO/Home Office have been contacted by any ISP other than BT?
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I've asked them in early May to explain who asked for the 'legal advice' that wasn't legal advice, and when.
So far, no answers, though I do know it was before August 16 2007.
Apparently I can't be told until August/September at the earliest. Which is around 6 months after an FoI request that should by law have been answered in 20 days. There's nothing to hide you understand, its all perfectly above board.
HO haven't revealed who else asked for advice, but I do know they were advising BT/Phorm throughout the period August 2007-February 2008. A period of critical/severe national security alert, when you might imagine people in the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism had more pressing things to consider than advertising for Weight Watchers and credit cards etc.
Supposedly, according to letters I've seen from BERR, advising business falls outside the Home Office remit in any case. They are supposed to handle warrants for surveillance by law enforcement bodies.
Pete