BadPhorm Blogs by Jim Murray
What good is law
22 Sep : 19:43
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It would seem from today's events that the word Law has little meaning in the UK anymore. If you happen to have enough money and enough guts to do it you can simply ignore any of those pesky laws that happen to get in the way of your latest money grabbing scheme without fear of prosecution.
That is the message being sent out by the City of London police today with their decision not to pursue the case against BT.
There is clear evidence that a crime was commited by BT during the unannounced trials of the Phorm system. Independant experts have agreed that as BT failed to get explicit consent from users for the trial they were in breach of RIPA. The reasons given by the police for their refusal to investigate the issue are, quite frankly, pathetic. They read like something you would expect from a BT/Phorm press release rather than a reasoned assessment from an independant body.
The police refusal to investigate this crime is in effect a clear statement that large parts of RIPA are virtually unenforceable (as was quite probably the intention when it was drafted). The true meaning and intent of RIPA is now becoming very clear - it does not seek to regluate interception, it seeks to DEregulate interception.
The bottom line is simple. You have no right to or expectation of privacy in the UK. It doesn't matter what you think or what the law says, if some greedy corporate fatcat thinks they can get rich by spying on you then they'll do it and nobody in authority will take the silghtest notice of it.
Sad to say but your privacy is better protected in Russia than it is here in the UK.
Today is the day British justice finally died. May it rest in peace.
Jim.
That is the message being sent out by the City of London police today with their decision not to pursue the case against BT.
There is clear evidence that a crime was commited by BT during the unannounced trials of the Phorm system. Independant experts have agreed that as BT failed to get explicit consent from users for the trial they were in breach of RIPA. The reasons given by the police for their refusal to investigate the issue are, quite frankly, pathetic. They read like something you would expect from a BT/Phorm press release rather than a reasoned assessment from an independant body.
The police refusal to investigate this crime is in effect a clear statement that large parts of RIPA are virtually unenforceable (as was quite probably the intention when it was drafted). The true meaning and intent of RIPA is now becoming very clear - it does not seek to regluate interception, it seeks to DEregulate interception.
The bottom line is simple. You have no right to or expectation of privacy in the UK. It doesn't matter what you think or what the law says, if some greedy corporate fatcat thinks they can get rich by spying on you then they'll do it and nobody in authority will take the silghtest notice of it.
Sad to say but your privacy is better protected in Russia than it is here in the UK.
Today is the day British justice finally died. May it rest in peace.
Jim.
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