Posts Tagged ‘Citizens’
Government Spied on 500,000 UK Citizens Last Year (2008)
to communications data, such as emails and telephone calls, in order to help fight terrorism and organised crime. Although the law does not allow authorities access to the content of messages or calls, they can request data such as the sender, recipient or time. Although the majority of requests were made by the police and security services, local councils have been accused of using the powers for trivial matters; including spying on people for littering and dog fouling. … spying …