Business needs to be certain of the legal position when procuring goods and services. For effective business and for the success of Internet business, clarity and certainty are essential. Security is required. There is no good reason why those agencies' rights in this connection should be any wider than for other communication media.
Flexibility is required.
It is a fundamental tenet of good government and always has been, that regulation should be kept to the minimum necessary. That is absolutely paramount in present circumstances with e-commerce. This is particularly the case since, although there are some horrendous abuses of the Internet going on, there is little reason to suppose that any legal regulation currently on offer is going to stop it. None of these abuses will in practice be prevented by law. An adequate level of encryption needs to be in place to ensure full transaction security.