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[denny]

Police last night told Tony Blair that they need sweeping new powers to counter the terrorist threat, including the right to detain a suspect for up to three months without charge instead of the current 14 days.

Senior officers also want powers to attack and close down websites, and a new criminal offence of using the internet to prepare acts of terrorism, to "suppress inappropriate internet usage".

They also want to make it a criminal offence for suspects to refuse to cooperate in giving the police full access to computer files by refusing to disclose their encryption keys.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1533917,00.html

Comments

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

It's the age old problem. If we're all following the law what have we got to hide?

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought the latter power was brought in in late April of 2001 with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2001. The former are just disgusting, however, and I'm totally with you there.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I thought that too... maybe there's some subtle difference in the new request. Greater scope or less evidence required or something.