DAILY DIALECTIC
April 19, 2009
"Increasing concern that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) is being used as a 'snoopers-charter' could mean that only elected councillors or senior officers would be able to approve secret filming or the monitoring of telephone records... A survey of local councils last year uncovered the widespread use of covert surveillance to combat littering, fly-tipping and dog-fouling. It is the use of anti-terror laws to combat this sort of 'environmental crime' that has infuriated the law's critics..."

  • UK anti-terror law being used on litterbugs