Tap! Tap! Tap! Whose that on the phone line today?

As I said in a number of previous posts, the UK’s Big Brother marches on, with over a 1,000 telephone lines a day being tapped by various UK authorities including Local Authorities.

A report, by Sir Paul Kennedy, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, has fuelled fears that Britain is becoming a state where private communications are routinely monitored.

The report also found that more than 1,000 of the bugging operations were flawed. In some cases, the phones of innocent people were tapped simply because of administrative errors.

I suppose in light of the recent missing data scandals I should not be surprised.

For more information take a look at this report.