How will the BBC detect people watching iPlayer without a licence?
Tales of vans driving around peeking into people’s homes to catch them watching the BBC without a TV licence have been a staple of the right-wing press for years (and more recently, an extremist wing of anti-TV licensing Twitter) but this weekend the Telegraph put an alarming new twist on the story.
- “BBC vans to snoop on internet users” cried the headline, warning that from next month a fleet of vehicles will “fan out across the country capturing information from private Wi-Fi networks in hopes to ‘sniff out’ those who have not paid the licence fee”.
The story was based on a report published by the National Audit Office last month, which said the BBC had demonstrated its ability to detect people watching live programming (the Telegraph decided not to mention the reference to live viewing only) on a “range of non-TV devices”.
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