Re: [TSCM-L] {2355} 1000 bugging operations a day
James M. Atkinson wrote:
> http://news.icm.ac.uk/technology/1000-bugging-operations-a-day/
>
> 1000 bugging operations a day
>
> Security services and other public bodies carry out up to 1000
> bugging operations every day in Britain.
>
> The latest report from the Interception of Communications
> Commissioner has shown that security services and other public bodies
> carry out up to 1000 bugging operations in Britain every day.
>
> Written by Sir Paul Kennedy, a former Lord Justice of Appeal who took
> over as the spy watchdog in April 2006, the report covers bugging
> operations over a period of 264 days in 2006, during which time an
> average of 960 new applications for interception were made each day.
>
> A total of 653 public bodies can lawfully request personal
> communications data. They include every police force and prison and
> 474 local authorities as well as the security and intelligence
> agencies. A total of 253,557 requests for such information were made
> in the last nine months of 2006, the latest figures available reveal.
>
> Bugging is usually carried out by MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the police and
> most people are targeted on suspicion of terrorism or serious crime.
>
> Senior council officers however are also given the power to authorise
> surveillance in order to catch fly-tippers, benefit fraudsters and
> rogue traders. In the nine months to the end of 2006, 122 councils
> sought to obtain private communications in more than 1,600 cases.
>
> Communications data has provided crucial evidence which has led to
> the arrest and conviction of kidnappers, rapists and paedophiles,
> helped prevent murders and gather intelligence on terrorism at home
> and abroad, the report stated.
>
> On allowing intercept evidence to be used in court, Sir Paul said:
> "At present, I am firmly of the opinion that the benefits of any
> change in the law are heavily outweighed by the disadvantages. With
> one exception, everyone to whom I have spoken in the course of my
> visits seems to be of the same opinion."
>
> The director of public prosecutions, most MPs, some senior police
> officers and human rights groups want the product of intercepts to be
> admissible in criminal trials. They argue that such evidence would
> avoid the need for lengthy detention without trial.
>
> The Conservatives and other groups including civil rights group
> Liberty have argued that permitting intercept evidence in court would
> help convict more terrorists, as well as other serious criminals.
>
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