[HacktionLab] this is mental

[mark]

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On 11/07/14 11:23, Charlie Harvey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I imagine it will be partly to do with outsourcing the risk to the 
> private sector. Seems to happen a lot these days.
> 
> If you can compel the ISPs to retain data in bulk then you don't
> have to spend as much money on storage at GCHQ -- or you can spend
> it on storing different things. I also think it is part of a bigger
> plan of normalising spying and letting other agencies use the sort
> of capabilities that were previously reserved for the spooks.

The bulk telecoms interception is already outsourced to ATOS. Their
lobbying was one of the precipitants for the 'emergency' legislation,
motivated by their desire not to be legally or reputationally
vulnerable to a (future) government laying the blame for the present
government's malfeasance at their door (think IBM, holocaust).

Mark
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