Data Retention Regulations in the Lords

[Roland Perry]

In article <E1Ln7G7-00086n-00@mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk>, Ross Anderson 
<Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes
>Am I the only person who finds it somewhat disturbing that Lord
>West didn't know what DPI means?
>
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/90324-0013.htm
>
>(just before 8.45pm)

I'm not entirely sure what your quibble is. DPI has been mentioned in 
the past in connection with Phorm - and as you know there's a debate 
about whether Phorm is guilty of 'RIPA' interception. Lord West seems to 
have a grasp of that.

But the SI is about retaining comms data, which is a separate issue. Of 
course, once retained it has to be used (accessed).

Is Lady Miller perhaps conflating "access to retained comms data" (eg 
with a s22 notice) with "using DPI to scrape comms data on the fly - 
which by analogy with the Phorm situation is currently not sufficiently 
clearly a RIPA pt1 offence".
-- 
Roland Perry