England & Wales

Snoopers Charter reviewed

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I see that Jacqui Smith has announced a review of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) and that councils will face new restrictions in their use of these surveillance powers.

I’d like to think that this is because the Home Secretary was blown away by the powerful arguments in my blog post on this very subject.

But I suppose there may have been other factors….



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