Facebook/Twitter etc "bans"

[Roland Perry]

In article <4E4597FE.1080807 at zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk> writes
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/09/bbm_riots/
>
>However,as an aside, beginning with a quote from the above:
>
>"When we asked RIM about this, the company provided the following 
>statement: "Similar to other technology providers we comply with the 
>Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and co-operate fully with the 
>Home Office and UK police forces" – so one can be reasonably certain 
>that even if it wasn't logging everything before, it is now."
>
>But surely that would be illegal?
>
>Starting to log traffic so that the Police can see the logs would 
>undoubtedly be interception (either monitoring traffic or modifying the 
>system or more probably both) and it would not be lawful under 3(3) 
>afaics

I think there's a danger here of conflating traffic data and content. 
You can log traffic data without it being an interception.
-- 
Roland Perry