Surveillance Commissioner warns about significant RIPA failings, unregulated private sector surveillance, and surveillance using the Internet.
1 August 2012
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Reading between the lines of the latest Annual Report of the Surveillance Commissioner (published last week) there is much to worry about; a lack of resources is undermining privacy protection and the system of supervision. As well as this significant degradation in privacy protection, the Surveillance Commissioner hints that the monitoring of users on the Internet might be unlawful if it does not consider the requirements of the Regulation on Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). He also implies that the
