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Q623 Dr Huppert: Mr Murdoch has been a bit silent so far. Tor has a slightly different relationship to this. What would be the consequences of this Bill on your operations? Are there specific consequences that you would have directly? Steven Murdoch: In some sense that is difficult to say, because the Bill does not

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Q619 The Chairman: […] If 30 million British subjects are held on a server in the States, do I understand the Patriot Act and others correctly in thinking that American authorities, whether the NSA or the FBI, would then have the right to say that they wanted access to anything on an American computer? Simon

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Q618 The Chairman: So if I or any other British citizen sent a message to friends in Switzerland or the United States and it is contrary to Swiss or United States law to store it, you would have to develop a system whereby you stored only my half of the message? Simon Milner: That is

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ref: session 2: Simon Milner: Yes. In our case, we were asking questions in particular about the data retention proposals and what the Home Office had in mind on what that might mean for Facebook. It explained that to us that the Home Office envisaged that there would be a retention order on Facebook to

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Via Andrew Watson of FIPR; I want to check the final session details, the names clash surprisingly. On 8th October the Communications Data Bill Committee published transcripts of some oral evidence taken in private from various communications providers. There are one or two redactions, but the evidence seems largely complete. Worth a look for those

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