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nd.gov.uk>, Graham Hadfield <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>The Home Office Guidance is complete - RIPA powers are only usable by those
>bodies listed in its Schedules, all of which are public authorities.
This is a misunderstanding. Many of the powers within RIPA are indeed
restricted to different subsets of public authorities: Warranted
interception, comms data disclosure, surveillance (and when "turned on",
encryption key seizure).
However, RIPA also allows mere mortals several powers: to intercept on
private networks [1], at the workplace [2] (see the Lawful Business
Regulations and the OIC's guidance on employee monitoring), and as
operators of public networks (to ensure their proper operation).
[1] Trivially by lifting an extension phone in your house, for example.
[2] Corporate virus checkers are deemed to be intercepting emails
(although with my day-job hat on I have always lobbied that this is
stretching the definitions rather further than Parliament intended).
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Roland Perry
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