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Home Office database plans could see firms move abroad | | 2008/05/30 | | The implementation of Home Office plans to ask communications companies to record every phone call and email made and sent by the public could drive firms abroad, the chair of one think tank has predicted.
Ross Anderson of the Foundation for Information Policy Research says that the huge costs incurred by firms as a result of such plans would encourage them to set up shop elsewhere.
Mr Anderson also said that there was concerns over the privacy of personal information should the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act come into being.
He said: "Under the new proposals, all the data would vanish into a government database, which would raise serious questions about third-party oversight and abuse."
"The effect of the proposed law would be to get firms to move their operations from the UK to other EU countries."
Under the proposals, police would be able to access the data through the permission of the courts.
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