Roland Perry - "is an ISP a 'Person'?"

[Peter Fairbrother]

Roland Perry wrote:

> 
> This has occurred to me too. An ISP with any kind of Intercept
> Capability (of the RIPA s12 kind) is Intercepting everyone's emails :-(

Are any technical details available?

> 
> Even without a formal Permanent Intercept Capability, the fact that you
> can (usually) access emails as Root, means the same.

There's no act of modification, interference or monitoring (assuming root
doesn't actually access anything) that would constitute interception under
RIPA. See 2(2).



-- Peter Fairbrother