For the sake of clarity…
Having read the debate about whether or not the Home Office itself counts as a “law enforcement agency” for the purposes of the replies to the Indymedia questions I tabled the following additional question yesterday -
Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether prior notification was received by his Department concerning the seizure of the Indymedia servers on 7th October.
It may be that this presents some difficulty if there was a request to the MLAT section at the Home Office that is covered by a confidentiality agreement. I’m not sure how they would reply in those circumstances. Worth a try anyway…
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Hi
This looks a very good attempt to analyse what’s been going on:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_10_21.shtml#1098833437
Another question was answered in the house of commons yesterday:
We regard to the volokh.com theories they, like others, seem to be overlooking the fact that the contract with Rackspace was a UK one and it was (is!) with Rackspace UK, there is some more info on this on the Indymedia wiki, but their speculation that Rackspace just rolled over might be true :-/
This has now been answered:
Internet (Material Seizure)
Mr. Allan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with US law enforcement agencies concerning the seizure of material from UK-based internet hosting providers; and if he will make a statement. [191627]
Caroline Flint: I can confirm that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has had no discussions in regards to the matter referred to in the question posed by the hon. Member. In the circumstances I do not therefore believe that it is necessary for me to make a statement.
The answer to the question yesterday:
Has generated some interesting speculation on The Register.