Comments on: Keeping an eye on UK developments

By: Ian Ainslie

Ian Ainslie — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:31:46 +0000

When I was fist made aware of just how much surviellance there is in the UK, I took the time to count the amount of CCTV cameras there are from my home to work.
I was shocked to learn that there was 23 cameras, watching my every move as I make my way to work.
!!!

By: barry

barry — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:56:42 +0000

re Tom’s post there are a number of examples of the use by the Gardai of telephone data. One remarkable one was during the occupation of St Pats cathedral by Afghanies a while back. A newspaper reported the Gardai as saying there were a lot of calls from inside the cathedral to Afghanistan, presumably the data was obtained through monitoring, which only requires the ok of a superintendant.

To be fair the data commissioner has mentioned several times in his reports the unsatisfactory nature of the controls on monitoring.

Bye, Barry

By: barry

barry — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:50:34 +0000

Further commentary here,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/30/stic/

This time on the situation in France, where a reprt by CNIL is critical of the various data sets available.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:20:08 +0000

The Unlawful act of ”fishing” for key words in text and phone conversations in Ireland is unfortunately as common as rain here.
I have had a member of my family, who happens to be a member of the Gardai, confront me with carbon copies, so to speak, of the contents of my messages sent to friends etc going back 3 months.
The reason for the blatant disregard for my right of privacy was that I used certain words/phrases like ”meth head” too often.
Apparently the use of these words allowed the authorities to print out my entire message history. I subsequently contacted the Data protection Commissioner (dataprotection. ie)via email reporting the incident but never got any meaningful reply from them. They seemed just…uninterested in what what I had to say, I still have the carbon copies with the details of my messages but the page is a photocopy.
I’ve since realized that the law is only there to protect those who make the laws.

By: paulo

paulo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:05:30 +0000

So what’s been done here in Ireland to stop this type of invasion of privacy? Any legal challenges? Sure if there’s no protest then it’ll just happen.

By: barry

barry — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:26:02 +0000

In addition, here –

http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/267C4AD2FDF4B0D180257537003FA434?OpenDocument

is a report of an interview by the head of MI5 suggesting that communications need to be ‘monitored’

Part of a pattern?? Looks to me like a news management job.