URLs, IPs and interception

[Roland Perry]

In article <47C997FC.30507@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
>>> RIPA doesn't say "looking at traffic data isn't interception", it 
>>>says  "looking at traffic data isn't interception if it's done to 
>>>facilitate  the transmission of communications".
>>  Actually it says "looking at traffic data in-or-attached-to the 
>>communication to facilitate transmission, isn't interception".
>
>Not quite - "looking at or for traffic data isn't interception if it's 
>done to facilitate the transmission of communications" is better.

No. "if someone attaches some data to a communication for the purposes 
of facilitation its transmission, or if there's other data *in* the 
communication which facilitates that transmission, then doing anything 
with that data can never be interception".

>>  It doesn't say what you can and can't do with that traffic data.
>
>That part doesn't - but the rest of RIPA does. If you are making it 
>available for any other uses then that's interception.

Rubbish. The rest of RIPA, if you mean Ch2, is all about disclosing 
traffic data to the authorities. [Not] disclosing to others is a DPA 
matter.
-- 
Roland Perry