The Sun expresses concern about proposed government surveillance powers: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4140261/Blanket-snooping-is-abuse-of-power.html In the same piece Trevor Kavannah repeats often repeated falsehoods: "Labour was condemned for "recklessly" invading privacy by using anti-terror surveillance as a catch-all for spying. Sneaky council officials abused the power and snooped on families trying to get children into popular schools or breaking garbage collection rules" Time the media were brought into the surveillance law regime? http://actnowtraining.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/ripa-it-up-and-start-again/ Regards Ibrahim Hasan Solicitor and Director Act Now Training Limited For training without the strain of the train: www.actnow.org.uk Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ActNowTraining ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^