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[privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:06:51 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHnphIq1pz9mNUZTMRAreBAKC6sxBQ5I64fNDEWhz1RzfSUIk2AgCgvEqR nONl53uEd3hnWIacZrHOfB8= =5rQg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Paul Ferguson (Jan 28)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Alex Eckelberry (Jan 29)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Michael Simpson (Jan 29)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Alex Shipp (elist) (Jan 29)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day David Harley (Jan 30)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 30)
- Re: [privacy] UK: Phones Tapped at The Rate of 1,000 a Day Alex Eckelberry (Jan 29)