October 18, 2009
"Britain: Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent"
"Data on politics, sexual activity and religion gathered by UK government"
"The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned."
"The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information on mental health, sexual activity and associates, and other sensitive information, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Other documents reveal that the intelligence and information can be stored until the people concerned reach the age of 100."
"Tonight Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, branded it the biggest spying programme in Britain in modern times and an affront to civil liberties"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=15722Not only on Muslims...me thinks. Strange how so many in New Labour became ultra right wing when they got elected...is it not?.
19 February 2007
"The government has been urged to end the 41-year-old ban on the tapping of MPs' telephones by the secret services."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6376033.stmAs if they didn`t already
12 July 2009
"Prescott in bid to access 'sealed' tapping records"

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http://news.scotsman.com/phone-tapping/ ... 5451600.jp

Sounds about right..me thinks.