Missing the important aspects of RIP (Score 1)

Trying to avoid rehashing the arguments of everyone else, the important parts of RIP are:

1) Obligation to surrender encryption keys

2) Obligation for ISPs to install monitoring equipment. (cf Carnivore !!)

see: http://www.fipr.org/rip/index.html

The UK has no history or tradition of freedom of information and first amendment rights. The RIP bill as originally proposed was extremely Orwellian. (The burden of proof was reversed for example on encryption keys - You had to prove that you had forgotten the pass-phrase for that that to be a defense).

The privacy at work issue is a smoke screen IMHO -it's your companies equipment & infrastructure so don't use it for personal use.

P.S. I work for an investment bank and I know for a fact ALL telephone calls (in and out) are recorded and stored for seven years.

P.P.S. The security guys usually have access to all the interesting security videos - usually at 20 GBP per tape :-)