DRIP - UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

[Peter Fairbrother]

On 12/07/14 18:45, Peter Fairbrother 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?
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> (Apart from Facebook and Twitter and the like, obviously. And then
> there's the changes to extraterritoriality to consider ...)

And games sites which allow players to message each other.


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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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