As of today over 652 UK public bodies will legally be able to check through your mobile and land line phone records and build up an intimate profile of who you’re calling and who’s calling you!
Bringing the UK into line with EU directives – I wonder how many other EU countries have implemented these rules.
Going back to the 652 UK public bodies who will have access to your phone records’ It’s clear to me that the Police will always need to have – subject to a court order – access to phone records to progress investigations into crimes, the same can be said for the security services (although I am concerned as to who that includes), but why would the Gaming Board, the Food Standards Authority and every district and county council in the country need access.
If we take the number of district and county councils (623) from the 652, and the above already listed) that leaves another 26 that have phone record access. Who are they? We’ll have to see if the Home office will give up that information.
This is another good example of the ongoing plunge of the UK into a total surveillance country, what else can follow?
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