Unprecedented Safeguards For Unprecedented Capabilities

Abstract

We recapitulate UK policy history on interception and cryptography, including consultations on key escrow and proposed extension of interception powers to cover the Internet. We then discuss how the systematic capability for Internet surveillance envisaged raises not only technical and cost issues, but strains current frameworks for authorisation, oversight, and accountability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 1999
Accession Number
ADA389247

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accountability
  • Civil Rights
  • Commerce
  • Cryptography
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Operations
  • Internet
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Security
  • Surveillance

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace