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The-Owl discovered 3 months ago- Poole council spies on family over school claim From the page: "A council has used powers intended for anti-terrorism surveillance to spy on a family who were wrongly accused of lying on a school application form. For two weeks the middle-class family was followed by council officials who wanted to establish whether they had given a false address within the catchment area of an oversubscribed school to secure a place for their three-year-old. Notes on the movements of the mother and her three children The council logged the family's actions in detail- click to enlarge The "spies" made copious notes on the movements of the mother and her three children, who they referred to as "targets" as they were trailed on school runs. The snoopers even watched the family home at night to establish where they were sleeping. In fact, the 39-year-old mother - who described the snooping as "a grotesque invasion of privacy" - had held lengthy discussions with the council, which assured her that her school application was totally in order. Poole borough council disclosed that it had legitimately used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on the family."
- stevedtrm rated 3 months ago
- More examples of the government using anti terrorism laws in detection of petty crimes.
"It's one thing for anti-terror police to use covert surveillance, but it has come to a pretty pass when it becomes the tool of the school catchment area police. This is a disproportionate and unnecessarily intrusive use of RIPA." - More examples of the government using anti terrorism laws in detection of petty crimes.
