Council uses Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to spy on famil

 

This is an example of how laws passed for one thing can be used for another. It seems that a council (Poole Borough Council) used laws for tracking terrorist to spy on a family to see if they really lived in a catchment area. It involved following the family in the daily business. I just hope none of them had to attend the local GUM clinic, doctors or any other health setting.

 

The law that was used, The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act was meant to be used for fighting serious crime and terrorism. Under this they can intercept communications, carry out of surveillance and the use of covert human intelligence sources

 

When you consider the amount of data that is being shared with these people by the likes of the children’s act 2004, or the fact they are allowed to find out who we called people all over the UK should be worried.

 

We currently have the government saying that they intend to allow police to access the national NHS database for investigating terrorism and other serious crimes and they intend to share even more information for this reason. If this is their idea of serious crime, heaven help people.

 

This case just goes to show that councils around the UK, along with the police and every other government department are going to be looking into everything we do and be spying on people at every opportunity. If they are allowed to get away with this abuse then every council in the UK would be able to spy on applicants. Then again, this is just what the goverment, police, social services, council, jealth workers, researchers and every goverment department wants.

 

Whilst this council has admited 6 occations, it is not known from the article how many other councils will be abusing, sorry using these powers. Next time you tell the council something, just pray they dont use these powers on you.

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7341179.stm

 

CCTV in public loos

There I was reading my own page, when I noticed I forgot to mention Virgin Trains spying on men in the loo. If you go into the male toilets in Wolverhampton train station you will notice there is CCTV between the washing basins and the urinals. Apparently this is for ’security’ reasons and to stop people vandalising the urinals or using drugs. The fact that drug users are just as likely to go to the cubical and shoot up, seems to have been ignored by good old Virgin. As for the urnial excuse. How can they tell who did what unless they are looking at the urinal and the lad peeing? Hence my claim that Virgin trains (the people who run the station) are spying on men in the loo.To this serious issue, it has to be asked if it is a good idea to get children to think it is perfectly OK to pee in front of a camera? I don’t and I think anyone that spies on the inside of a loo is rather sick in the head and should concentrate on porn rather than trying to brainwash the public into thinking it is OK to be spied on EVERYWHERE we go