Sentence examples for obtained communications from inspiring English sources

Officials said the United States had obtained communications intercepts that show Iraqi officials coaching scientists in how to avoid providing valuable information about Iraq's weapons programs to inspectors.

Official statistics reveal police and security services obtained communications records under Ripa more than 514,000 times last year – more than 1,400 times a day.

The document highlights the number of obtained communications increased in 2012 by 248% for Skype – leading the notes to remark there was "exponential growth in Skype reporting; looks like the word is getting out about our capability against Skype".

It is also permitted to obtain communications data such as phone numbers and email addresses.

The behemoths can use the ruling to argue against future attempts by governments to obtain communications beyond their borders.

It boasts of what it calls "strong growth" in its use of the Prism program to obtain communications.

An offence of "wilfully or recklessly obtaining communications data" will ban misuse of data by the firms or public bodies.

However, this should not stop our police and security services from obtaining communications data in certain, limited circumstances, to protect the public and ensure national security".

The bill permits the agencies to hack – the government calls this "equipment interference" – to obtain "communications" or "any other information", including through surveillance techniques, such as remotely "monitoring, observing or listening to a person's communications or other activities".

In fact, the report was about applications to obtain communications data, ie who, when, where and how communications were sent and received, not to intercept communications, which would reveal what was said or written.

It is defined (in the code of practice accompanying the bill) as "a range of techniques used by the equipment interference agencies that may be used to obtain communications, equipment data or other information from the equipment.