Swimming in the surveillance Poole: the real privacy problems with RIPA
9 August 2010
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Both opposition parties (now in power) before the General Election focussed on Local Authorities as the main abuser of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) powers, and to some extent the Investigatory Powers Tribunal's recent decision re Poole Borough Council appears to reinforce that view (see references). The Tribunal concluded that the Council’s procedures were at fault (they are in fact very sloppy), the surveillance was too extensive, and the purpose underpinning the surveillance operation uncertain. This was also accompanied by the
