URLs, IPs and interception

[Roland Perry]

In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802292310480.657@spruce.eng.gla.ac.uk>, Chris 
Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk> writes
>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.

Which is why the tailpiece [1] on RIPA s21(6) seeks to restrict the 
definition of traffic data to *just* the "hostname bit". (Simplifying 
somewhat).

[1] "but that expression {traffic data} includes data identifying a 
computer file or computer program access to which is obtained, or which 
is run, by means of the communication TO THE EXTENT ONLY that the file 
or program is identified by reference to the apparatus in which it is 
stored." {my emphasis}.
-- 
Roland Perry