I’ve begun this section, I’ll try to do it weekly. Just a quick round up of news I think is important with a short commentary. First up, is;
Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day
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.
Councils can tap phone calls?
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.
It also found that more than 1,000 of the bugging operations were flawed. In some cases, the phones of innocent people were tapped simply because of administrative errors.
We are becoming a surveillance state. This country needs a revolution. Read the rest of this entry »
