[privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Telegraph.

[snip]

Britain is in danger of becoming a "surveillance state" as authorities
including councils launch bugging operations against 1,000 people a day.

Councils, police and intelligence services are tapping and intercepting the
phone calls, emails and letters of hundreds of thousands of people every
year, an official report said.

Those being bugged include people suspected of illegal fly-tipping as
councils use little known powers to carry out increasingly sophisticated
surveillance to catch offenders.

The report, by Sir Paul Kennedy, the Interception of Communications
Commissioner, has fuelled fears that Britain is becoming a state where
private communications are routinely monitored.

[snip]

More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/29/ntap129.xml

- - ferg

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