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RIPA and how the Police Service makes sure it’s silent

Reading Time: 11 minutes You will no doubt be familiar by now with my blogs on the subject of RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) and my attempts to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain some kind of insight into how Police Forces may be using RIPA to monitor their officers’ use of social media (SM). 

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Big Brother is watching you…. and so are his corporate partners

Reading Time: < 1 minute More thoughts on RIPA, Internet Surveillance and State Monitoring of Social Media #TheRestIsSilence The Internet is a surveillance device as defined by RIPA section 48(1). Surveillance is covert “if, and only if, it is conducted in a manner that is calculated to ensure that persons who are subject to the surveillance are unaware that it

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The Departments of Professional Standards and RIPA – #TheRestIsUnbelievablySilent

Reading Time: 4 minutes Firstly I would like to refer you to my earlier blogs on the subject if you haven’t already read them Social Media, the Police and RIPA – #TheRestIsSilence The Departments of Professional Standards and RIPA #TheRestIsSilence and if you really have nothing better to do Social Media, The State and Interception #TheRestIsSilence In the second part of that

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Social Media, The State and Interception #TheRestIsSilence

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a result of my last blog; Social Media, The Police and RIPA #TheRestIsSilence my reader asked me expand a little on the State and Interception. So here it is, my attempt.  Make no mistake, I’m too long retired and divorced from policing to know what goes on now, but I think I know what

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Social Media, the Police and RIPA – #TheRestIsSilence

Reading Time: 12 minutes This subject is currently a hot potato, a VERY hot potato. There has been much conjecture, anecdotal evidence, fact and fiction spread around Twitter in recent months about Police use of Social Media and the real or potential repercussions of it.  Now we have one of own, Constable James Patrick of the Metropolitan Police Service

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