URLs, IPs and interception

[Ian Batten]

On 29 Feb 2008, at 23:14, Chris Edwards wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>
> | Looking at RIPA again (and I'm sorry if it's boring, but !! ..),  
> can an ISP
> | give out traffic data without it being interception?
>
> AUIU interception is concerned with content, not mere traffic data.
>
> However, a list of URLs (the full URL, not just the hostname bit) is
> in effect content data, as one can often "fetch" the page in question
> and thus read the full content.

And I'm sure that Simon was on board with the conclusion for Home  
Office purposes that traffic data was everything between the // and  
the first /, but anything after that required a content warrant to  
collect and pass on.

ian