State-Sponsored Communications Interception Facilitating Illegality

Telecom Responsibilization: Internet Governance, Surveillance, and New Roles for Intermediaries

“…For example, Yahoo's lawful cooperation with Chinese authorities resulted in dissidents being jailed, who then sued the company in U.S. court (Mills, 2007). From these examples, it is clear that while laws provide a useful means for states to compel compliance from telecom companies, many such arrangements are extra-legal, and may even be illegal (see Fitsanakis, 2003).…”

Researching the origins of UK data protection

“…This article takes us down a route travelled in previous numbers of this journal with the publication of Joseph Fitsanakis's (2003) and Bert-Jaap Koops's (2003) studies of historical aspects of communications interception, in that it, too, assembles historical material which casts light on the formation of processes and systems in and around privacy invasion and protection.…”