In 2006, more than 1,000 applications per day were being made to use Ripa powers. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) allows councils and others to authorise surveillance, obtain phone records and details of email traffic from personal computers (though not their contents) and obtain details of websites individuals are logging on to.
It is logical to assume that in 2008, there are many more abuses of this disgusting law.
Now we have WAKEY WAKEY, Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, who said: "I am astonished that this very serious legislation is being misused in this way in cases which seem to be petty and vindictive. We have just completed an inquiry into the surveillance society and we have noted that there has been a huge growth in the use of these laws.
Was Keith Vaz is so stupidly naive that he didn't believe that such powers would be abused when this law was first passed. He and the rest of the parliamentary morons were warned at the time yet they still voted for it, including most of the Conservative and LibDem front benches and members.
Now this is only 1 law which this government have introduced over the past 11 years. What of the other 26,000 new laws introduced which are probably being abused on a daily basis?
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and
family life, his home and his correspondence.
Article 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Article 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The extent of intrusion using RIPA is outlined by MagnaCartaplus.org
Who is allowed to spy on you using RIPA is outlined here, and includes bodies such as The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, The Food Standards Agency, The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, The Post Office and the NHS. So, just about anyone then.
Britain has become a "surveillance state", and we liken the tactics employed by councils and others to the Stasi secret police in the former East Germany, and this must be stopped.
Like most of the new laws passed by this government, which unjustly govern our lives totally, they are disproportionate to needs and should be abolished forthwith.
There is another way!
Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.
