Dropsafe

Q659 The Chairman: Is it the panel’s view—I do not want to put words in your mouths—that part of this 25% gap, whatever it might be, might be closed with better training and more sophisticated techniques in the police and security services? Stephen Collins: If only half the £1.8 billion was spent on training, that

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Simon Milner: To reiterate, that does not mean we think that there are no ways of improving the processes between ourselves and law enforcement. If you want to spend £2 billion of public money, though, why not use it to improve the intergovernmental MLAT process, which is a very important part of this whole regime?

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Q653 Lord Faulks: […] Very briefly, I detect that one of the real problems for all your organisations is the uncertainty and quite what it will mean in commercial and cost terms if the Bill becomes law. Have you made some estimate in your own minds as to what the costs will be? Bearing in

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Q651 Lord Strasburger: […] My question is: what does the wholesale retention of communications data over a period of 12 months do to enhance law enforcement and all the other agencies who want to get this? The message I am getting from the whole panel is that apart from, perhaps, some Facebook accounts that might

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Ad terrorem Q649 Baroness Cohen of Pimlico: It seems to me that, at least on behalf of all the over- the-top services, the power for UK CSPs to collect your stuff as it goes over them is actually not useful. Would that be fair? So one then asks oneself, “Why is it in the Bill?”.

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Q636 Lord Strasburger: I am still in search of this elusive 25%. If representatives from the Home Office were here today—and we asked them—they might say that telephony was not all on landlines or even on mobile phones but is now over the internet, and they might point at Skype or Tor as developments that

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(like I didn’t call this one) Q635 The Chairman: But if people are to comply with the Bill, you as service providers cannot introduce a new service and then wait a few months or a couple of years for the DPI technology to catch up. Would you be under an obligation not to launch your

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Q630 Baroness Cohen of Pimlico: We are wondering what the implications would be of requiring a British-based CSP to store some of your data that go across it. Are you suggesting that your reaction would at the very least be to encrypt to protect your customers? Colin Crowell: I do not know how we would

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Colin Crowell: We probably get fewer requests for user data than some of the other services, only because the nature of Twitter is that most of what happens there is already public anyway. Law enforcement oftentimes simply has to go to the web on its own and can obtain the relevant Tweets that they were

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