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UK: Terrorism Bill

01 November 2005

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Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, said on 7 November in an article for the Evening Standard newspaper that one of the main reasons the police want to hold suspects for 90 days is because of :

"the immense time taken to decode super-encrypted hard drives on computers without a key"

Earlier this month, two top establishment figures, Lord Brown (the Intelligence Services Commissioner) and the Rt Hon Sir Swinton Thomas (Interception of Communications Commissioner), both - in their annual reports published last week - threw doubt on the police and government's argument for holding terrorist suspects for 90 days (See Statewatch News Online, November 2005)

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