Are you being Monitored?

Apparently there were 439,000 requests made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year. Now if I can work this out this means that about 1 in 140 of the population has been monitored.

Agencies that can monitor the above include: MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, the signals intelligence centre in Cheltenham, as well as 52 police forces, 475 local authorities and 108 other organisations such as the Serious Fraud Office and the Financial Services Authority.

So look around you and wonder who is being monitored and why. You must know one of these people.

Privacy row as checks on phones and e-mails hit 439,000-News-UK-Crime-TimesOnline