Subject: [Id-event] "Events Data"

From: Mark Lizar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:58:57 +0000

This might be of some interest. 

s193 of the new UK surveillance bill this is something that I found out which is the introductions into legislation of the notions of  “entity data” and “events data”. “Events data”, broadly, relates to a specific event on a telecommunications system, and “entity data” describes a person or thing, or an association between that person or thing and a telecommunications service or system. s193(5)(c) also introduces a concept of “architecture of a communications system”, a notion which is not within the current scope of RIPA, and which presumably relates to information about, for example, cell tower location and active element configuration — information to which there is no specific access power by authorities. 

So, it would seem that the term “Event” is appearing in the legal language as well. 

- Mark