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UK: Report from: BIG BROTHER WATCH: The Grim RIPA: Cataloguing the ways in which local authorities have abused their covert surveillance powers

01 May 2010

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The Grim RIPA: Cataloguing the ways in which local authorities have abused their covert surveillance powers (pdf): "372 local authorities in Great Britain have conducted RIPA surveillance operations in 8,575 cases in the past two years. This means that Councils alone have carried out over eleven surveillance operations every day in this country over the past two years."

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