A long day yesterday — 12 hours on airplanes, but only 45 minutes late in the end despite a connection in thunderstorm-plagued Chicago. I’m back in Silicon Valley after a week in London, where I spoke at the NetMedia 2000 conference, ate some remarkably fine food and saw old friends. I also got up to date on a story that has received too little attention, here or there.
It’s the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (R.I.P.) bill, now before Parliament, and this legislation is one of the most Draconian communications surveillance systems conceived by a popularly elected government. Will it pass? The the odds may be improving slightly for a derailing of the bill, but no one knows for sure.
More in my Tuesday column.
TWO VIEWS ON R.I.P.