[ga] UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Again it seems that our dear friends in the UK have made
another error in judgment.  I am sure that ISP's especially in
the US are relieved as well as are many American citizens
or other citizens of other nations, especially China, are
similarly relieved as well...  I am also sure that those
small businesses that have their own domain names and use
email associated with same will be similarly relieved as
well...

See:
A BBC report calling the UK's law requiring ISPs to
retain users' emails for at least a year an "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7819230.stm attack on rights." The
article also points out financial and technical flaws with the plan
(which we
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/15/2222209&tid=158
first discussed in October). TechCrunch goes a step further,
detailing how it 
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/09/the-uk-governments-plans/ 
conflicts with other governmental goals. Quoting: "...with one hand 
the government seeks to lock down the British Internet with an iron 
fist, while at the same time telling us it is boosting innovation 
and business online. It is quite clearly blind to the fact that one
affects the other. Are we also expected to think that the consumers 
using online services are not going to be put off from engaging in 
the boom of 'sharing' that Web 2.0 created?  How would you feel if 
every Twitter you sent, every video uploaded, was to be stored and 
held against you in perpetuity? That may not happen, but the
mere suggestion that your email is no longer private would serve to 
kill the UK population's relish for new media stone dead, and with 
it large swathes of the developing online economy.

Regards,

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