Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone: Via Privacy Lives.

Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a law targeted toward terrorism and organized crime. I’ve written before about this disturbing trend of local councils in the United Kingdom using RIPA powers to track or prosecute minor offenses, such as littering.

In the Poole case, Jenny Paton (the mother under surveillance) went to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which investigates complaints about RIPA. The tribunal agreed to have a public hearing, and it has begun in the UK. The Daily Mail has an update on the case:

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