The article explains how the Government is concerned whether controversial technology is being used in a "lawful, appropriate and transparent fashion". The "aim to ensure that future use of the technology is with customers' consent.......... that they have the ability to opt out at any time."
A matter of principle is now involved. If the aim is "to ensure that future use of the technology is with customers' consent.......... that they have the ability to opt out at any time." then that 'aim' must apply to the Government's wish, through the use of 'controversial technology', to monitor the e-mail traffic of the public.
"It is not necessary to criminalise a large section of the network-using public to control the activities of a very small minority of law-breakers." - Jack Straw in 1998.
But then the word 'principle' is not part of this Government's 'modus operandi' - is it?
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