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Councils snoop into phone records of 1,000 callers
kiakanpa | 06 June, 2008 09:25
From The Mirror:
Nearly 1,000 people's phone records have been investigated by council snoopers, it was revealed yesterday.
The surveillance powers for tracking terrorists have been used to probe everything from a bogus faith healer to dog smuggling.
A survey of Big Brother spying town halls showed that one council used the powers almost 100 times to monitor private phone calls and emails.
It comes after it was revealed Poole Council in Dorset had spied on a family because it wrongly suspected the parents of abusing rules on school catchment areas.
Them damn terrorist faith healers. Why the hell do councils have this power? Ignoring everything else, it is not the job of councils to police people - if a crime has been committed it should fall to the POLICE not councils.
UK, Personal Data, Freedom |
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