In article <F8C6A307D8FCD21191590090272D1650B10A5A@CEXEXC01>, Nicola
Peters <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Important:
>This e-mail is intended for the above named person only and should be
>treated as confidential. If this has come to you in error you should take
>no action based on it, nor should you copy or show it to anyone;
>please telephone us immediately.
Actually, it may well be argued that under RIPA, if I have received
(rather than seen over someone's shoulder) an email for which I am not
the intended recipient, then an offence may have been committed. That
is, by whoever caused the email to be intercepted (whether by error or
deliberately, the Act does not seem to have the equivalent of the
difference between murder and manslaughter).
The definition in the Act being:
[making] some or all of the contents of the communication available,
while being transmitted, to a person other than the sender or intended
recipient.
My question is this: Should I therefore keep this incident to myself, as
requested by the sender, or should the police be informed?
Of course, there are some exceptions, most famously if the Sec of State
signs a warrant for a policeman to intercept a suspect; but in our
commercial/public-body world the more interesting are those in the DTI's
proposed Lawful Business Practice regulations.
I commend the consultation process to you all!
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Roland Perry | tel: +44 1733 207705 | [log in to unmask]
Regulation Expert | fax: +44 1733 207729 | http://www.linx.net
London Internet Exchange | mbl: +44 7050 604080 | /contact/roland
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