Being Watched?

[JMorgan]

Anyone clocked this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2037000/2037951.stm
Some of the new departments that want to nose into your life. To think that my local council a nothing better than a amatuer commitee, may get these powers


Government departments

* The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
* The Department of Health
* The Home Office
* The Department of Trade and Industry
* The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
* The Department for Work and Pensions
* The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland

Local authorities

* Any local authority within the meaning of section 1 of the Local Government Act 1999
* Any fire authority as defined in the Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators Order 2000
* A council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994
* A district council within the meaning of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
* NHS bodies in Scotland and Northern Ireland
* The Common Services Agency of the Scottish Health Service
* The Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the Health and Social Services

Other bodies

* The Environment Agency
* The Financial Services Authority
* The Food Standards Agency
* The Health and Safety Executive
* The Information Commissioner
* The Office of Fair Trading
* The Postal Services Commission
* The Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency
* The Scottish Environment Protection Agency
* The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary
* A Universal Service Provider within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000

[CarZee]

Frightening, huh?

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=23&h=&t=11874

It does upset me that this goverenment is such a bunch of control freak lunatics that they're prepared to give the woman in the information kiosk at the local shopping centre (by all accounts) access to information about my whereabouts as well as details of whom I have been in communication with.