Yes it is over 4 years old - but still, it's not we believe - the sort of thing that we want to hear about The Environment Agency and Henry's latest post makes it seem likely that some folk at the Environment Agency have got themselves the complete collection of Spooks boxed set and are using them as an instruction manual.
Cloak and dagger at the EA?
Yeah ... we're mildly paranoid about truth and the EA (with some compelling evidence!) Given our experience of things EA it's not like they change their spots or anything - and the use of an eye-wateringly expensive anti terrorist rumour database by the EA really does make one wonder about the mindset at middle and senior management levels inside the organisation.
Reputedly Chief Exec Dr Leinster has to authorise any RIPA activity personally - we wonder where the line is between repeating and logging earwigged title tattle / gossip and overtly snooping is?
It's clear from the shambles we've seen in a supposedly straightforward box ticking exercise that EA intelligence gathering and the veracity of information is likely to be deeply flawed - who checks all this info?
Please, somebody from the EA come and tell us you're not routinely using RIPA ? We wonder if the annual report from the Surveillance Commissioner is a public document - somehow we doubt it... - but we have asked :-)
A bit more old news - but not much coverage since -
Any EA (or ex EA!) folk know what happened to
EA Warrington National Carbon Snooper Team?
EA Warrington National Carbon Snooper Team?
£5 million a year since 2009 with no discernible effect - £25,000,000 spent without achieving anything ... yep - the more one sees of the Environment Agency - the more obvious it becomes that it's dysfunction and broken beyond repair.
For those of you wondering about the extents of snooping and who gets up to actually doing it - this Daily Mail article by Steven Glover makes for frankly quite disturbing reading - for all the grandstanding in the media about Rupert Murdoch - it would seem the problem is far, far wider and I suppose it makes it less of a surprise that the EA see no problem with getting into the snooping game big time....
I think that beyond informing our MPs of what is happening, it's important to get a petition going to instigate a full audit into the Environment Agency so that these mistakes and abuses no longer happen - sign at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/54227
ReplyDeletefwiw - British police are the third highest "official" users of Facebook globally.
ReplyDeleteThis fevered snooping culture we're developing...
No surprises about public organisations using Facebook. The EA is behind on this. Facebook and other social media weren't opened to all staff until back end of 2013. It's now widely used by all staff, especially "snooping". It's the new way of doing "business" for officials these days.
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