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RIP vs. Human Rights Act

Posted by michael on from the clash-of-the-titans dept.

Oostendorpophile writes "Yikes: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/05/uk.snoop.v.eu.idg/index.html" The powers the UK government has awarded to itself with the new RIP bill appear to conflict with rights guaranteed under the Europe-wide Human Rights Act.

4 comments

  1. uk politicians != sense :) by protactin · · Score: 1
    We can only hope that this now spells RIP for the RIP bill... :)

    I think there's more stuff about it for the uninformed at www.stand.org.uk and there's some interesting transcripts at the UK parliament web sites..

  2. I have many by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1
    (apologies. version 1.1 follows)

    Firstly it's RIPA, not RIP, and you could have at least made a lame `Rest in Peace` joke.

    I prefered the olden days when hordes of people with more swords than you ruled commoners like titans. It was so much more clean-cut and thrust.

    I just love the wording: "gaining routine access to business communications".... oh, so long as they're business communications and not personal. "[caller consent required bar] activities such as downloading pornography)"... I love pornography and it's a protected right.

    Honestly, this Kuro5hin article summed up the points better than I ever could.

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  3. Human Rights in US? by Sanity · · Score: 3
    To any Americans relieved that the UK too is capable of insane legislation, note carefully that UK citizens have had the ability to appeal to the European court of Human Rights - and soon directly to their own courts. It would seem that the American government doesn't think that Americans are humans, since they have not incorporated human rights into their law. Witness the value of this as RIPA is killed in the UK. Witness how there is nothing in US law to prevent the same thing being introduced in the US (the constitution is circumvented on a daily basis and is basically retreating on almost every issue - note the DMCA Vs the 1st Amendment).

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  4. Re:I have many. by DaveHowe · · Score: 2
    Firstly it's RIPA, not RIP, and you could have at least made a lame `Rest in Peace` joke.
    As I understand it, it was the RIP bill until it passed, at which point it became an Act of Parliment (the RIP Act)

    Sorry, ran out of lame RIP jokes already discussing this abomination...
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