tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post3706268237184171478..comments2024-03-15T09:20:12.565+00:00Comments on TV Licensing: The BBC Has No Right to Hack Private Wi-Fi ConnectionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-41209133514288484132016-08-09T14:33:39.105+01:002016-08-09T14:33:39.105+01:00The source of the Telegraph story can be found onl...The source of the Telegraph story can be found online. It's taken from the:<br /><br />Television Licence Fee Trust Statement for the Year Ending 31 March 2016.<br /><br />It can be found on the NAO website and on the TVL site as well (just stick the above title in google) The section of interest is in The Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report to the House of Commons (pages 26-43)<br /><br />There's no mention or hint of any wi-fi detection.<br /><br />On page 38 it says:<br /><br />"The BBC’s final detection and enforcement option is its fleet of detection vans. Where the BBC still suspects that an occupier is watching live television but not paying for a licence, it can send a detection van to check whether this is the case. TVL detection vans can identify viewing on a non‐TV device in the same way that they can detect viewing on a television set. BBC staff were able to demonstrate this to my staff in controlled conditions sufficient for us to be confident that they could detect viewing on a range of non‐TV devices."<br /><br />This sounds like the infamous "optical detectors".<br /><br />On pages 37-38, the BBC says it does not monitor "individuals' access to streaming sites on the internet" nor can it request "lists of subscribers to other providers of television<br />services, and therefore cannot cross check these lists against the TV Licence database".<br /><br />There is some interesting stuff in the report. For example on page 38 it is stated that of the households identified by TVL as watching TV online without a licence, 64% bought a licence and 36% did not as a result of the enforcement process. Of the 36% who did not buy one, 73% were not prosecuted or fined. This would seem to indicate that less than 10% of cases where TVL claimed to find evasion resulted in prosecution.Fred Bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-55743323975902894752016-08-09T11:01:52.774+01:002016-08-09T11:01:52.774+01:00Jim Curry's letter sums it up perfectly.Jim Curry's letter sums it up perfectly.198kHzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03650257920923801821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4959111893158321335.post-72331686122756279092016-08-08T21:54:34.369+01:002016-08-08T21:54:34.369+01:00Interesting article here from techies.
http://www...Interesting article here from techies.<br /><br />http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/06/bbc_detector_van_wi_fi_iplayer/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com