URLs, IPs and interception

[Peter Fairbrother]

Roland Perry wrote:
> 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".

Ah, I see the ambiguity now.

You think "for the purposes of any postal service or telecommunication 
system by means of which it is being or may be transmitted" refers to 
the traffic data, while I think it refers to the conduct.

We need some arbitration here, I think. Any lawyers about?

-- Peter Fairbrother



"a) any conduct that takes place in relation only to so much of the 
communication as consists in any 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;"