Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR or ICR), agency created in 1938 on the initiative of U.S. Pres.
In today's story, the government sows some seeds of doubt by saying it is "looking at options" on a future sale of the Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) loan book.
A mechanism by which this occurs is DNA methylation (the addition of a CH3, or methyl, group to specific regions of DNA) at imprinting control regions (ICRs).
Theresa May described internet connection records (ICRs) as the online equivalent of a phone bill, showing an itemised list of all of the connections that a device has made.
How then, can such a massive invasion of people's privacy be justified, when serious crime and terrorism can be successfully tackled without ICRs?
Originally the government claimed that ICRs were the digital equivalent of a telephone statement, but the joint committees rumbled that.
"It's very important that I make that clear because when it comes on to ICRs, we are not talking about looking at people's web browsing history, we are simply looking at that initial point of contact".
Law enforcement agencies, mainly the police, claim they need ICRs, even though they do not have them now and there are serious doubts that they will be of any practical use.
"It is absolutely possible, and we've been talking at length with the companies, to be able to separate in internet connection records (ICRs) for example, the device or website that a particular device has accessed and not then go into the content of whatever it is that has been looked at in relation to that," she said.
Particular attention is needed in relation to new powers which would allow the home secretary to require internet service providers to retain "internet connection records" (ICRs) for 12 months.
I was told by the security and intelligence agencies they did not want and did not need ICRs in order to keep us safe.
