UK Firemen Can Read Your Email
from the um,-but-why? dept
I don't follow data privacy laws outside the US to carefully, so this one is a bit of a surprise to me. According to this article, under a new "snooper's charter", fire authorities and ambulance services will now be able to request access to your phone records and internet data. Why does the fireman need to read your email? Not really sure, but the option is there for them. In a separate, but related announcement, phone companies now need to keep copies of all such records for a year.
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sounds like a bradbury novel
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It's not so stupid..
Of course before the police would be involved with these types of thing, but the option is now there to remove the middle man where it makes sense. For example think of someone making repeated hoax calls to 999 (112 etc) - before it would have to be raised to the police and there would be a whole load of messing about whilst not a lot happened. Under the new laws the Fire Brigade (Fire Department) can request phone records directly from the phone companies directly. That's just one example, there are many more which I shan't go in to.
Of course you could argue that the police should be more efficient at dealing with requests of behalf of the other emergency services in which case they probably wouldn't be asking for access to this stuff...
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For cases when someone sends a suicide note via em
Story says warrent is required.
Like someone else said, can't police handle this stuff for the fire service?
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The answer is very simple (but thelogic is contort
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im fireman
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