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

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

But I suspect Brits don't really care... "Well, it's all for the good",
and "it makes us safer".  

Where is the dammed outrage, from the country that was the birthplace of
modern constitutional government and common law?

<sigh>


Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:07 PM
To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day

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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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