Labour’s privacy legacy: 1 in 50 subject to communications surveillance
20 October 2010
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At the moment, we are all being bombarded with numbers associated with New Labour’s financial legacy. Well there is another number which reveals a further legacy of the last administration. Under New Labour, for each UK citizen in the last year (i.e. you), there was a 1 in 50 chance that your communications could have been accessed by the law enforcement and national security authorities. This translates into a “Governmental Annual Surveillance Probability” (known as the “GASP”) of at least
