> I always thought that RIPA related to the powers the police, security
> services and law enforcement agencies could use.
Part of it applies to anyone who operates a telecommunications system. It
even applies to you in relation to your home network. Fortunately, though,
the requirements on private systems are rather less onerous than on public
systems (ISPs and phone companies and the like).
> Am I right or can my client include the above in the policy?
Not only can they, they more or less have to. (The act itself does provide
some restricted cases where the network operator can intercept without having
to give prior notification, but they're really to do with network operation
itself. Anything more requires to use the regulations, and those do need a
statement like the one you describe.)
Of course, the Data Protection Act will subsequently apply to any material
they intercept...
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