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Where is that information available? AFAICT local authority requests are via JPs in local courts and no centralised numbers exist?
by CraigJPerry 9y ago
Where is that information available? AFAICT local authority requests are via JPs in local courts and no centralised numbers exist?
- Chriky 9y agoThey are in the OSC's annual report, for example. [1] Councils also sometimes respond to FOI requests, although they don't have to. e.g. over a three year period this council [2] made 11 requests for Call Data Records (who somebody phone) and 29 applications for in-person surveillance (checking people who claim to be unemployed are actually unemployed). In 2015-2016 (the most recent OSC I can find) there were, for example, 9147 applications for Directed Surveillance of which a MAXIMUM 8.5% were possibly by local councils. Do you have any evidence that suggests, it is, in fact, 99.9% from local councils? [1] https://osc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Annual-Report-of-the-Chief-Surveillance-Commissioner-for-2013-2014-laid-4-September-2014.pdf https://osc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/An... [2] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/use_of_the_regulation_of_investi_9 https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/use_of_the_regulation...