Evidence from 11th December
APIG COMMUNICATIONS DATA RETENTION INQUIRY
Oral Evidence Submitted to the Inquiry
Wednesday 11th December 2002
Committee Room A, House of Commons, LONDON SW1A 0AA
Before:
MR. BRIAN WHITE MP and MR. RICHARD ALLAN MP
09:30 ISPA: Internet Service Providers Association
Camille de Stemple, AOL
Europe
& Clive Feather, Thus
plc
10:10
Dr. Ian
Walden
Head of the Institute of Computer
and
Communications Law, Queen
Mary,
University of
London
10:50 FIPR: Foundation for Information Policy Research
Dr. Ian Brown,
Director.
MR. WHITE: Let me start by welcoming everybody to this Inquiry. The
All Party Internet Group consists of Members of both Houses of
Parliament across the different Parties. We have held a number of
events with the Internet industry and have responded to Government
legislation with the advent of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Act with the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, with the whole
issue of digital attacks and cybercrime. We thought it was the right
time, given the consultations which are going on in the Home Office,
actually to launch this Inquiry. We are delighted to have received a
lot of written evidence and today and next week we are going to be
taking some oral evidence based on the written submissions. We hope
that we will then submit a series of recommendations to the Government
which will influence the way the Home Office is going.
At present, only two of us are present, and we are Richard Allen
MP, who is on my right, and I am Brian White, MP for Milton Keynes
North East. However, a number of other Members of Parliament are
involved in this inquiry who may drop in from time to time, diaries
permitting. Our first witnesses are from Internet Service Providers
Association (ISPA).
ISPA evidence.
Dr. Ian Walden evidence.
FIPR evidence.
MR. WHITE: In concluding, we will be having evidence from the Home
Office and from a number of other bodies next Wednesday. Then we hope
to issue a report after Christmas. Thank you.
(The day's proceedings concluded)
