DRIP - UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

[Ian Batten]

On 12 Jul 2014, at 18:45, Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/07/14 16:54, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
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>> I don't think he makes enough of the redefinition
>> of "communications service"  in clause 5 - which as far as I can see
>> includes eg an advertising agency whose service includes creation and
>> management of communications (advertisements) to be transmitted by a
>> telecomms system:
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>> Google ads, for that matter.
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>> Or a web page designer.
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> Or mailing list archives.
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> Can anyone think of any more ridiculous but (supposedly-)unintended things the clause (below) actually includes?

Iron Mountain, or other tape backup services?  They're facilitating the management or storage of communications.

ian

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> (Apart from Facebook and Twitter and the like, obviously. And then there's the changes to extraterritoriality to consider ...)
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> 5 Meaning of "telecommunications service"
> In section 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (meaning of "interception" etc), after subsection (8) insert--
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> (8A) For the purposes of the definition of "telecommunications service" in subsection (1), the cases in which a service is to be taken to consist in the provision of access to, and of facilities for making use of, a telecommunication system include any case where a service consists in or includes facilitating the creation, management or storage of communications transmitted, or that may be transmitted, by means of such a system.
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