“Phone and internet companies will soon be forced to keep logs of internet usage to be made available to the police under a new law announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th May 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A council which used anti-terrorism powers to check whether a child lived within a school’s catchment area has used the same law to spy on fishermen, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court.”
BBC News, 1st May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A survey of UK councils has found some are spying on litter louts and people who let dogs foul public places, using laws to track criminals and terrorists.”
BBC News, 27th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has refused to investigate BT’s covert wiretapping of thousands of its customers in 2006 and 2007, despite its own expert’s view that without consent Phorm’s advertising targeting technology is a breach of criminal law.”
The Register, 17th April 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
“Ministers do not need to extend pre-charge detention to 42 days because they already have the power to almost indefinitely hold suspects who do not reveal what is held on their computers, a rebel Labour MP said today.”
The Guardian, 14th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s surveillance watchdog is blocking proposals by senior police officers to cut through the red tape involved in mounting operations to observe suspected criminals.”
The Times, 14th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A family who were wrongly suspected of lying on a school application form have discovered that their local council used anti-terrorism surveillance powers to spy on them.”
The Independent, 11th April 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police officers knew they were covertly bugging conversations between a terror suspect and his MP, but were not breaking any rules when they did so, an official report said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, today proposed an end to the ‘confusion’ surrounding rules on the surveillance of MPs after it was announced that Labour MP Sadiq Khan was twice bugged while visiting a constituent in prison.”
The Guardian, 21st Febraury 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former home secretary Kenneth Clarke blocked security services from launching investigations into the notorious ‘Squidgygate’ and ‘Camillagate’ tapes because of fears it would damage the reputation of MI5.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The law Society has written to Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to express ‘grave concern’ over allegations that solicitors’ conversations with clients were bugged.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Mark Kearney faces eight charges of misconduct in a public office in allegedly leaking police information to a local newspaper journalist and a private detective.”
The Times, 11th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A legal precedent has established that deliberate bugging of conversations with lawyers constitutes such an affront to the rule of law that trials should be halted and any convictions obtained overturned.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The inside story of how and why one MP was bugged reveals that eavesdropping by the authorities in Britain is far more widespread than suspected – and that no one is immune.”
The Times, 10th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Scotland Yard’s deputy commissioner was told two months ago of allegations that his officers had bugged an MP while he talked to a constituent who was held in prison, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard officers threatened a former policeman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he divulged what he knew about a covert operation in which an MP’s conversations were bugged, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A police officer last night claimed he was forced by the Metropolitan Police to carry out the bugging of a meeting in prison between Babar Ahmed, a terrorist suspect, and his MP, Sadiq Khan.”
The Independent, 5th February
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The justice secretary, Jack Straw, will make a Commons statement today about claims that a senior Muslim MP was bugged by police while meeting a constituent in prison.”
The Guardian, 4th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard’s antiterrorist squad secretly bugged a high-profile Labour Muslim MP during private meetings with one of his constituents.”
The Times, 3rd February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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