URLs, IPs and interception

[Peter Fairbrother]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <47C9863F.3040708@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
> <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
> 
>>>> S.2(5) says:
>>>> " (5) References in this Act to the interception of a communication 
>>>> in  the course of its transmission by means of a postal service or 
>>>> telecommunication system do not include references to—
>>>  DO NOT include
>>>
>>>> (a) any conduct that takes place in relation only to so much of the 
>>>> communication as consists in any traffic data
>>>  TRAFFIC DATA
>>>
>>>> comprised in or attached to a communication (whether by the sender 
>>>> or  otherwise) for the purposes of any postal service or 
>>>> telecommunication  system by means of which it is being or may be 
>>>> transmitted; or
>>
>> Yes. If an ISP looks at traffic data for the purposes of the 
>> telecommunication system then that's not interception.
>>
>> But if an ISP looks at traffic data for any other reason, then it _is_ 
>> interception. Traffic data is still content.
> 
> But the definition above says that interception does not include traffic 
> data.

No, it doesn't say that at all. Read it again.


It says when an ISP looks at traffic data in order to facilitate the 
transmission of messages then that isn't interception - but it's not a 
blanket okay to look at traffic data.

There is NO blanket "looking at traffic data isn't interception" in RIPA.

-- Peter F