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[Mathew Carley]

Interception at the ISP != searching your home computer. I also think it 
has to be certain *types*
of pornography (animal, child and rape or something to that effect). I'm 
pretty sure those downloading
"stewardesses in heat" #35 through #90 (thanks Bill Hicks) can rest easy.

The privacy act extends to everybody in different ways. It prevents, for 
example, reverse lookups on
phone numbers. It prevents you (or is supposed to) finding out the name 
of a passenger on an aircraft.
It prevents your local pharmacist from dropping your name in to a 
conversation regarding any health
issue (or one that might be more familiar - Dr Dirk, you'll know this 
one - software developers and/or
support staff who have to dial in to computer systems at medical 
practices to fix the software/run
corruption checks/correct patient data/apply updates etc)...

It can be a complicated one, the old privacy act, but if you play it 
right, you could use it to your
advantage.

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Ron Wilson wrote:
> I only know what I read in local newspaper but I understand that
> recently (last year or so) legislation was passed to allow your computer
> traffic to be searched at ISP terminations and also allow devices to be
> installed on your PC to enable discovery.
> I remember that there was some delay in implementing because phone
> companies did not want to pay for the equipment to be installed in their
> exchanges. There was discussion about this but they eventually agreed to
> implement. I have read letters to paper from people in industry
> mentioning this technology but there has not been a great deal of
> discussion.
> I understand that there are at least two grounds that can authorise
> this. One was pornography and the other was defence. In neither case are
> they obliged to tell you of the interception. A warrant is not required
> as far as I could tell. It is probably similar to the wiretap bill in
> which they have to tell the prime minister of how many intercepts each
> year but no other details. I also understand that the intercept
> equipment also extends to both Vodafone and Telecom mobile networks.
> I think it applied to any telecommunication system, and if you were for
> instance using NZ phone system to dial into an overseas computer system
> it would still be covered. The only thing that I could see that might be
> exempt was private satellite links but it would not be surprising if
> they were also included.
>