Officials from the top of Government to lowly council officers will be given unprecedented powers to access details of every phone call in Britain under laws coming into force tomorrow.

The new rules compel phone companies to retain information, however private, about all landline and mobile calls, and make them available to some 795 public bodies and quangos.

The move, enacted by the personal decree of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, will give police and security services a right they have long demanded: to delve at will into the phone records of British citizens and businesses.

IS JACQUI SMITH A MEMBER OF 'COMMON PURPOSE' ??

But the same powers will also be handed to the tax authorities, 475 local councils, and a host of other organisations, including the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health, the Immigration Service, the Gaming Board and the Charity Commission. Other organisations allowed to see the data include the Royal Navy Regulating Branch, the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary, the Department of Trade and Industry, NHS Trusts, ambulance and fire services, the Department of Transport and the Department for the Environment.

Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner, which has responsibly for protecting personal information and policing the Data Protection Act had virtually no role in the new laws.

'It is a free for all. There is a lack of oversight of how and why public bodies are using these records. There is no public record of what they are using this information for.'

Tony Bunyan, of civil liberties group Statewatch, said: 'The retention of everyone's communications data is a momentous decision, one that should not be slipped through Parliament without anyone noticing.'

Last year, the voluntary arrangement allowed 439,000 searches of phone records.
(source Mail on Sunday)

Gordon Brown's is the new Stalin. The East German spying organisation the Stasi, which was set up on the instructions of Stalin have nothing on Brown and his new kind of politics.

The State now knows everything about you, who you talk to, what you talk about and where you are.

Do you feel frightened yet, you should do, because there is more to come.
Those 26,000 new laws and 3000 new criminal offences were never meant to get terrorists, they were always meant to get control over you.

So yet again, the government is using the "the security of the nation depends on it" argument to justify its actions.




I have always said that this government wants nothing more than to control every tiny little aspect of you life, and with new laws coming into force tomorrow we should all think carefully about what this government wants to achieve.



NuLab - Destroying Britain from the inside out.