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

[Caspar Bowden]

> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Charles
> Lindsey
...
> 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).

I agree with this, although seems arguable that newsgroup (not article
number) might fall within defn. of traffic data - but I wouldn't care to put
money on it.
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Caspar Bowden                           www.fipr.org
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