UK: Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones - Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area (Guardian, link) and Who's listening
UK: Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones – Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area (Guardian, link) and Who’s listening to your calls? Met’s blanket surveillance system will track thousands of innocent civilians’ mobiles (Daily Mail, link).
Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments: “The use of such a surveillance system is not covered by RIPA whereby the Home Secretary has to sign warrants for specific individuals or organisations. There is a long history of law enforcement and security agencies using new means of surveillance because it is technologically possible and leaving the law to catch up years and, in some cases, decades later.“