{"id":70330,"date":"2013-02-12T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=70330"},"modified":"2013-02-13T01:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:02:05","slug":"who-can-spy-on-your-internet-browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/70330-who-can-spy-on-your-internet-browsing.html","title":{"rendered":"Who can spy on your Internet browsing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa must be able to divert a user\u2019s traffic to an \u201cinterception point\u201d on-demand as a requirement of RICA, Cybersmart<\/a> CEO Laurie Fialkov<\/a> recently told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (RICA) was gazetted in 2003 and, after a number of extensions, service providers finally had to fully implement it by June 2011.<\/p>\n

Part of the demands RICA places on ISPs, Fialkov added, is that they must be able to see what a user is connecting to, as well as broad classification of what the traffic is.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance we can tell if it is adult content or video streaming or e-mail,\u201d Fialkov said.<\/p>\n

This type of interception may only happen when a person in law enforcement receives permission to do so, however.<\/p>\n

Fialkov highlighted\u00a0sections of RICA<\/a>\u00a0which specify that only retired judges, or a judge of a High Court not in active service may grant a \u201cdirection\u201d to this effect.<\/p>\n

This is the only way they are able to inspect a user\u2019s traffic, Fialkov said, as they don\u2019t store any information about which URLs or IPs users connect to.<\/p>\n

\"Laurie

Laurie Fialkov<\/p><\/div>\n

Franco Barbalich<\/a> from Axxess<\/a> and Derek Hershaw<\/a> from Mweb<\/a> reiterated this, saying that they don\u2019t store specific data about their subscriber\u2019s Internet usage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt an individual user level we track total usage so that we can apply capping and so on,\u201d explained Hershaw, who is head of Mweb ISP. This is for Mweb\u2019s capped user-base.<\/p>\n

Mweb also tracks the network protocols and services that are used by its subscribers at an aggregate level, Hershaw said. This is to do traffic management and shaping.<\/p>\n

Asked how this data is stored and who has access, Hershaw said that it is secure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe treat it the same way as all our customer information, he said. “In terms of the aggregated data we are referring to here, only a small group of staff who do our traffic management [has access].”<\/p>\n

\"Derek

Derek Hershaw – MWEB ISP MD<\/p><\/div>\n

More privacy and RICA news<\/h3>\n

Cryptography and jailtime in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

RICA is a waste of money: Cell C CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rica helps to put criminals behind bars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

RICA and your privacy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Multimillion Rand RICA already a failure?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet service providers explain what South Africa\u2019s RICA law requires of them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":70338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1765,2954,559,4652,35,4358,213,18158],"class_list":["post-70330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-axxess","tag-cybersmart","tag-derek-hershaw","tag-franco-barbalich","tag-headline","tag-laurie-fialkov","tag-mweb","tag-regulation-of-interception-of-communications-and-provision-of-communication-related-information-act-rica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70358,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70330\/revisions\/70358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}