YouGov :"POLL - Blunkett's proposals on internet privacy: for or against"

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 02:38:34 -0000
	"Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org> said...

> The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, last month proposed that Internet
> Service Providers should be "enabled" to track and store the broad
> communications data of their customers including addresses of e-mails, sites
> browsed, articles read and use of newsgroups.

I don't think RIPA allows "articles read" and "use of newsgroups" to be
classed as communications data. I think the most that could be stored
would be the identity of the site to which an HTTP or NNTP connection
was made (and even that might turn out to be a proxy in most cases,
unless the LEA also has access to the proxy logs and the means to do the
necessary correlations).

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