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Originally Posted by |Kippa|
What about the 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000' with specific regards that the Secretary of State can issue the interception of communications (in section 5 of the act 'interception with a warrant'). As far as I can tell from browsing the act if it is authorised by Home Secretary then they can legitimatley intercept your communications, probably via deep packet inspection and or other methods regardless of your consent or not.
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That is correct. But such authorisation shall not be granted unless...
(a) it is in the interests of national security;
(b) it is for the purpose of preventing or detecting serious crime;
(c) it is for the purpose of safeguarding the economic well-being of the United Kingdom; or
(d) it is for the purpose, in circumstances appearing to the Secretary of State to be equivalent to those in which he would issue a warrant by virtue of giving effect to the provisions of any international mutual assistance agreement.
I don't think that interception of communications for the purpose of Application Throttling/Management falls under any of those.