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09:32:03 on Fri, 21 May 2010, "Bradshaw, Phillip"
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>"So exempting the public authorities from RIPA (the "R" is Regulation)
>will take us back to the bad old days."
>
>Not necessarily. The legislation could e.g. be an outright ban on covert
>surveillance by all but a few such as the police.
That's a non-starter, because there is so much law that isn't enforced
by the police in the first place.
The example I used originally was the Egg Marketing Board, who managed
to make a case for snooping on farmers stamping Lions on imported eggs.
Once you lift the lid on the rather wide range of public authorities
enforcing very real laws that protect us citizens, it's just a case of
drawing the right line in the sand. (I think the Jockey Club, for
example, were always "outside").
And the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK's rules and
safeguards on covert surveillance are proportionate (when normally they
seem to rule that the Home Office has overstepped the mark). So what's
the problem?
--
Roland Perry
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