Snooping requests soar to half million
Posted on 23 Jul 2008 at 12:13
A surveillance report has revealed that requests by public bodies to intercept communications soared to over half a million in 2007.
The information was revealed in a report presented by the Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, who discovered that requests for information on private telephone calls and emails in 2007 amounted to more than 1,400 a day, or 519,260 over the course of the year.
The figure represents a dramatic increase on the 350,000 average in the previous two years.
Despite the increase, Kennedy believes "local authorities could make much more use of communications data as a powerful tool to investigate crime."
However, a separate report by Chief Surveillance Commissioner Sir Christopher Rose criticised councils for displaying "a lack of understanding of the legislation" and displaying a "serious misunderstanding of the concept of proportionality" referring to incidents of local authorities snooping to deal with offences such as fly tipping.
Author: Stuart Turton
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