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 This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^