David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
British civil libertarians are charging that local governments have gone too far in spying on their own people, particularly through the use of surveillance cameras that were intended to foil terrorists.
Former British MP and civil liberties exponent David Davis complains that “public bodies have amassed 266 separate powers to forcibly enter the home. … Bugging is no longer the preserve of MI5 – hundreds of councils are entitled to exercise these powers. And it is not just bugging.
Local councils increasingly hire neighbourhood spies to investigate petty misdemeanours, including dog-fouling, rubbish regulation and parking entitlements.”
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