[Full-disclosure] GCHQ supplier pans government file-sharing plans

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One of the companies that supply intelligence technology to the government has 
criticised UK plans to monitor file-sharers.

Detica told ZDNet UK on Thursday that government plans to force ISPs to 
identify unlawful file-sharers were not proportionate.

"If the government chose to go down that route, we would come out strongly 
against," said Detica media accounts director Dan Klein. "It's not necessary or 
proportionate."

Detica, a BAE subsidiary, provides technologies that are used by the 
intelligence services and law enforcement to gather intelligence. While 
targeted monitoring of potential terrorists was proportionate, said Klein, 
using similar technologies for civil infringements was unnecessary.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39906065,00.htm

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