On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:20:13PM +0100, Godfrey Nix wrote:
> I mean, there is no hope for me, is there? I expect the police imminently!!
Not just the police, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs; Department of Health; Food standards agency; Scottish drug
enforcement agency and The UK atomic energy authority constabulary to
name but a few.
And the Food standards agency, well, they're above the law! Certainly
above the UN convention on Human Rights:
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html#Article%2017
1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference
with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful
attacks on his honour and reputation.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.
Now I'm sorry, but being questioned by the Food Standards Agency over an
email has to be arbitrary. OTOH, the unlawful bit is very scary. It
looks like it doesn't prevent it at all. That line of argument also has
been dropped from most anti-RIPA sites:
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/mpress112.html
Ho hum,
Matthew
--Matthew Sackman Nottingham England
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