> “Police officers that downloaded the app were unaware that all calls would be recorded, and people were not informed that their conversations with officers were being recorded.
I doubt they will inform the public who were recorded to avoid lawsuits, but I believe the same legislation applies to police officers as it does to other employees:
> Employers must explain the amount of monitoring clearly in the staff handbook or contract.
> Employers are not allowed to monitor workers everywhere (not in the toilet, for example). If they don’t respect this they could be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
Let’s see how many law suits are going to be filed.
Don’t worry, plans are afoot to make sure it will no longer be unlawful…
So their punishment for this crime was someone called them naughty boys and said you better not do that again. As usual it’s one rule for the elite and the people who enforce their will, and one rule for the rest of us.
Could everyone who believes that “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” and doesn’t believe the police and 26 other government organisations will just invade their privacy because they can, irrespective of legal oversight, please put their hands up and say why this is OK.
The laws are for them to enforce as they like, ignore as they like and fabricate as convenient.
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Fuck the police.
Am I the only one who finds this article infuriating. They constantly refer to “the app” or “an app”. Wtf is “the app”? Why was it downloaded, what is its purpose? If the app was literally to record calls that’s different. If it was an app that was unknowingly recording calls that’s even worse.
Let’s see what the “if you don’t have anything to hide” squad way about this.
>“We can only estimate the huge amount of personal data collected during these conversations, including highly sensitive information relating to suspected crimes.”
God forbid the police have access to *highly sensitive information relating to suspected crimes*.
They shouldn’t have done it, but it’s not like they were wiretapping random people for the luls.
I thought Line of Duty was OTT but in reality it seems the Police are just straight up not to be trusted….unless of course its policing social media.
Why such a shock apps like Facebook and tic tok do the exact same thing in fact they take more data such as a real time view of a person’s phone for intelligence services to use.
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>Two police forces have been reprimanded
So no one will actually be punished.
> “Police officers that downloaded the app were unaware that all calls would be recorded, and people were not informed that their conversations with officers were being recorded.
I doubt they will inform the public who were recorded to avoid lawsuits, but I believe the same legislation applies to police officers as it does to other employees:
> Employers must explain the amount of monitoring clearly in the staff handbook or contract.
> Employers are not allowed to monitor workers everywhere (not in the toilet, for example). If they don’t respect this they could be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
https://www.gov.uk/monitoring-work-workers-rights/email-cctv-and-other-monitoring
Let’s see how many law suits are going to be filed.
Don’t worry, plans are afoot to make sure it will no longer be unlawful…
So their punishment for this crime was someone called them naughty boys and said you better not do that again. As usual it’s one rule for the elite and the people who enforce their will, and one rule for the rest of us.
Could everyone who believes that “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” and doesn’t believe the police and 26 other government organisations will just invade their privacy because they can, irrespective of legal oversight, please put their hands up and say why this is OK.
The laws are for them to enforce as they like, ignore as they like and fabricate as convenient.
​
Fuck the police.
Am I the only one who finds this article infuriating. They constantly refer to “the app” or “an app”. Wtf is “the app”? Why was it downloaded, what is its purpose? If the app was literally to record calls that’s different. If it was an app that was unknowingly recording calls that’s even worse.
Let’s see what the “if you don’t have anything to hide” squad way about this.
>“We can only estimate the huge amount of personal data collected during these conversations, including highly sensitive information relating to suspected crimes.”
God forbid the police have access to *highly sensitive information relating to suspected crimes*.
They shouldn’t have done it, but it’s not like they were wiretapping random people for the luls.
I thought Line of Duty was OTT but in reality it seems the Police are just straight up not to be trusted….unless of course its policing social media.
Why such a shock apps like Facebook and tic tok do the exact same thing in fact they take more data such as a real time view of a person’s phone for intelligence services to use.