Re: UK 'Spying' Requests Exceed 500,000

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

Damm. That's a lot of terrorist.  What a dangerous, scary place it must
be over there. 

Alex
 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:24 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] UK 'Spying' Requests Exceed 500,000

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Via The BBC.

[snip]

More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications
data such as telephone records were made last year, a report says.

Police, security services and other public bodies made requests for
billing details and other information.

Interception of Communications Commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy said 1,707
of these had been from councils.

A separate report criticises local authorities for using powers to
target minor offences such as fly-tipping [1].

[snip]

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7520371.stm

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-tipping

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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