At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the bill "will force many relatively small companies to hang on to data that they would not otherwise retain, which puts the data at risk".
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According to Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism Charles Farr, formerly of MI6, so-called "black boxes" - DPI - probes are not the "central plank" of the 2012 Communications Data Bill.
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However, the bill has been said to provide the legislative basis for a "giant database" that would allow "quite complicated questions" about "communications behaviors and patterns" which could become a "honeypot for casual hackers, blackmailers, criminals large and small from around the world, and foreign states", as Lord Strasburger described it, as the bill was scrutinsed by the Joint Committee of MPs and peers.
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