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The number of council-operated CCTV cameras in the UK has nearly trebled in a decade, privacy campaigners say.
The Director of Big Brother Watch, Alex Deane, which carried out the survey, said there were now nearly 60,000 cameras operated by 418 councils. Ten years ago the number of cameras stood at 21,000.
“The evidence for the [...]

Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers, a spokesman for the firm has confirmed.
The suspected illegal trade emerged after the firm alerted Christopher Graham, of the information watchdog.
He said brokers bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who then cold-called the customers, as [...]

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting.
Despite widespread opposition over Britain’s growing surveillance society, 653 public bodies will be given access to the confidential information, including police, local [...]

Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic  condemned as “Orwellian” last year is gathering momentum.
The then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the police and security services needed new powers to keep up with technology.
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The Home Office confirms that it will go ahead with plans to ask communications firms to monitor all internet use.
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A chef who featured in Fifteen, a scheme set up by television celebrity Jamie Oliver, confessed after appearing on the programme that he was part of a gang which stole millions of pounds worth of Cartier jewellery, a court heard.
Tom Baisden, 28, of Thundersley, Essex, was [...]