I should also point out, on a different part of the Bill, section 189,
"Maintenance of technical capability" requires non-UK
providers/companies to provide access to cleartext. e.g., this part
reaches non-UK folks:

"An obligation specified in regulations under this section may be
imposed on, and a technical capability notice given to, persons
outside the United Kingdom (and may require things to be done, or not
to be done, outside the United Kingdom)"

:/

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Robin Wilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> It’s very hard to work out exactly what UK policymakers think they are aiming 
> for here… quite possibly because their own understanding is less than perfect.
>
> In the parliamentary debate yesterday, the Home Secretary repeatedly referred 
> to retention of “the first page or device accessed by a user”.
>
> I don’t think I know what that means.
>
> I also wonder, for instance, how that would work in a “portal”-style 
> environment, where a single “landing page”  could contain dynamic content 
> elements.
>
> Nor is it clear to me whether, once I visit a site, my CSP would have to log 
> the “first connection” my browser gets to each embedded third-party-served 
> element on that page (e.g. ads, ssh sessions etc… etc…).
> If it does, there’s potential for this measure to result in volumes of data 
> that are so large as to be increasingly unusable. (Obviously, as a 
> privacy-concerned citizen, if the interceptors drown in data, I can see an 
> upside in that ;^)   )
>
> I will be looking at the detail of the Bill over the coming days, and no 
> doubt ISOC will be publishing some analysis, comments and conclusions.
>
> Yrs.,
> Robin
>
> Robin Wilton
> Technical Outreach Director - Identity and Privacy
> Internet Society
>
> email: [email protected]
> Phone: +44 705 005 2931
> Twitter: @futureidentity
>
> On 5 Nov 2015, at 04:34, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> (moving a thread from Stephane on dns-privacy here to perpass)
>>
>> I wanted to highlight for perpass the draft UK Bill [1] that dropped 
>> yesterday.
>>
>> It includes the following language in Section 71(9) that ISPs, on
>> notice, will need to retain the following for one year (and, yes, some
>> of this is completely crazypants and totally unclear how to map these
>> concepts onto technical concepts):
>>
>> ----
>>
>> (9) In this Part “relevant communications data” means communications
>> data which may be used to identify, or assist in identifying, any of
>> the following—
>>
>>     (a) the sender or recipient of a communication (whether or not a person),
>>     (b) the time or duration of a communication,
>>     (c) the type, method or pattern, or fact, of communication,
>>     (d) the telecommunication system (or any part of it) from, to or
>> through which, or by means of which, a communication is or may be
>> transmitted,
>>     (e) the location of any such system, or
>>     (f) the internet protocol address, or other identifier, of any
>> apparatus to which a communication is transmitted for the purpose of
>> obtaining access to, or running, a computer file or computer program.
>>
>> In this subsection “identifier” means an identifier used to facilitate
>> the transmission of a communication.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> While the press before had highlighted this bill would require
>> retaining "web browsing history" it seems both somewhat worse, and
>> potentially Netflow data for what seems like all an ISPs subscribers.
>>
>> Wondering if others have thoughts.
>>
>> best, Joe
>>
>> [1]: 
>> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473770/Draft_Investigatory_Powers_Bill.pdf
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:28 PM
>> Subject: [dns-privacy] We'll have stakeholders in Great Britain...
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>>
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-34715872
>>
>> The bill will force companies to hold "internet connection records"
>> for 12 months so they can be requested by authorities.
>>
>> Such data would consist of a basic domain address,
>>
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