RE: Government Noses

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 06 September 2003 16:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Government Noses
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> But the most important thing to remember is that they don't 
> need to be 
> collecting information on everyone "just in case" (they'd be 
> swamped), 
> because it's easy enough for them to get the information on the 
> relatively few they investigate, on an ad-hoc basis. 

Hence the traffic data retention proposals?

> Their proposition 
> being that they have sufficient instinct to investigate mainly people 
> who turn out to be guilty. 

Or at least those they sufficiently disapprove of.

And the stats on their false-positive investigation rate are not widely
published, are they?

> (Although the 99% figure pertained 
> to those 
> they then choose to prosecute).

Exactly so.   The bit that makes them look good.

Dave