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Doreen Broom wrote:
>>Anyone gone down the road of  wardens being equipped with camera
phones >for patrolling and reporting of incidents? or does the RIPA or
even RIP(S)A >prevent us from so doing i.e. intrusive monitoring or do
we have other >powers which allow this?

My understanding is that RIPA is only concerned with interception of
communications in the course of transmission in relation to a public
postal service, or a public telecommunications system. It does not cover
what a camera phone is used to take pictures of.

John Hitches
Kingston University


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