Dave wrote:
If various different government departments have been given the right
to enter your home, just where does this put your basic European
rights to privacy?

Dave

Privacy, what privacy? Under the various regulations and laws spouting from
both this country and the EEC there is no such thing as privacy now - George
Orwell's 1984 has arrived! (It was a bright cold day in April, and the
clocks were striking thirteen.)

All private telephone calls, e-mails and internet traffic is now intercepted
(and can be kept for up to 2 years), and the various bits of stored
information can be accessed by the police etc along with various town hall
mandarins - and even the ambulance service using RIPA and a few other bits
of legislation.

As for access to your home - this generally needs a warrant (usually fairly
easy to get from an obliging magistrate).

You can be stopped in the street, searched and questioned under
anti-terrorism laws.

Your are photographed in almost every city, town and village in the land at
some point.

Your are followed on all the major road routes by ANPR cameras.

The list is endless - and privacy non-existent!


BTW, how the hell is this a d-i-y question????


Unbeliever