If Croydon council’s placement of CCTV cameras inside private homes to monitor unsuspecting people outside on the street creeps you out, read on, because your UK home is no longer your castle and government intrusiveness is running amok… Joe Wolverton, II reports: Just when they thought they could not be under more surveillance or monitored…
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Secret CCTV cameras INSIDE people’s homes spy on neighbours outside
CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council ‘snoopers’ to spy on neighbours in the street outside, it was revealed today. The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behaviour. Each device is linked to a laptop computer and accessible online…
Zw: Hands off civil servants’ data, PSC tells WB
Sydney Kawadza reports: The Public Service Commission has blocked an attempt by the World Bank to access the personal data of State employees, which it claims it needs for an audit of the civil service. Senior Government officials on Monday said the World Bank’s request was in contravention of certain laws and they suspected the…
AU: No jail for ex-cop over sex snooping
The AAP reports: A former West Australian detective has escaped a jail term for using the police computer system to access the details of more than a dozen women he fancied. John Lawrence Curran, 46, was given a seven-month suspended sentence and fined $1000 after pleading guilty in Perth Magistrates Court to 16 counts of…