Unbeliever wrote:
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.

The ambulance service can track the address of a landline phone or the
location of a mobile in seconds. They only do so because of the idiot
Govmint targets that insist on an 8 minute response on Cat A calls,
regardless of clinical outcome. The clock starts from the time the call is
recieved, not the time the controller actually gets confirmation of the
address and the exact nature of the problem from an often panicking &
agitated caller. In other words its retrospective.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk