BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users

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Mon Aug 8 21:08:51 PDT 2016


http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-August/029866.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-detection-vans-to-snoop-on-internet-users/

BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users
Patrick Foster 6 August 2016  8:24am

The BBC is to spy on internet users in their homes by deploying a new
generation of Wi-Fi detection vans to identify those illicitly
watching its programmes online.
The Telegraph can disclose that from next month, the BBC vans will fan
out across the country capturing information from private Wi-Fi
networks in homes to "sniff out" those who have not paid the licence
fee.
The corporation has been given legal dispensation to use the new
technology, which is typically only available to crime-fighting
agencies, to enforce the new requirement that people watching BBC
programmes via the iPlayer must have a TV licence.
The disclosure will lead to fears about invasion of privacy and
follows years of concern over the heavy-handed approach of the BBC
towards those suspected of not paying the licence fee.  However, the
BBC insists that its inspectors will not be able to spy on other
internet browsing habits of viewers.
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