The view that Britain has become a surveillance society has been reinforced by the computer hacking powers granted to the police. The police are now able to hack into personal computers without the need for a court warrant.
The UK police has now been given the power to hack into private computers without the need for permission from the courts. This new power utilises remote searching to access personal computers and obtain private information. Civil liberty groups are calling these new powers a breach of privacy rights. The new police hacking powers have been quietly rolled out across Britain without much publicity. The police claim that this type of surveillance is a necessity when it comes to tracking criminal activity on the internet.
There are a number of ways that the police can hack into a personal computer without the user’s knowledge. Remote searching means that the police can hack into the user’s computer from another location. This is achieved by sending a virus to the suspect’s computer in an email. The police would then be able to view the suspects emails and browsing habits. Key logging is another form of hacking that sends back details of each keyboard key used by the suspect and can be used to obtain passwords. Wireless networking can be used to hack into a suspect’s computer and monitor their online activities and search hard drives.
Civil liberties groups such as Liberty are claiming that this type of police power should be backed up by a court warrant. Police do not need a court warrant to hack into a member of the public’s personal computer. The only permission that is required is the approval of a Chief Constable. The Chief Constable must be satisfied that the act of hacking into a personal computer is in proportion with the crime that is being investigated. According to Liberty, the act of police computer hacking is no different from breaking into someone’s home and taking private information without a warrant.
The information obtained by the police through computer hacking will not just be limited to the UK. The European Union has now been given the power to request this information from UK police. Police authorities in EU countries can now request that UK police hack into certain computers to obtain information. This information will then be passed back to the police in countries in the European Union. This can all happen without the knowledge of the computer user.
The UK has arguably become a surveillance society with decreasing privacy rights. British residents are under constant surveillance the minute they leave their homes. There are over four million CCTV cameras in the UK alone; that is one camera for every 14 people. The monitoring of work rates, communication methods and travel is constantly increasing. Simply going on holiday abroad can mean full body scans in UK airports. With the police now able to hack into the public’s personal computers it looks like this is one more step to complete UK citizen surveillance by the government.
Simple solution, dont use computers or phones. Also put a paper bag on your head and only go out at night and keep constantly jittering about like you have ADHD. Consider living in a cave. Wrap tinfoil and a wet towel around your head that will stop the satellites from tracking your thoughts.. am I serious? Yes no YES no yes.. no ??
The leeds police, some ambulance and Leeds city council CCTV service have not left me alone since, I reported two transport police officers for assaulting me for trying to report some harassers. I have been living under their opressive monitoring system in this town and it has been hell. Its been a combination of neighbours participating with these bent police and some ambulance miss using a app, to monitor what I do on my computer, than blast off their sirens to specific things I would do online or off line, that they would dissaprove off. This wasn't something criminal nor illegal, if I was searching one of the indiviudals that participated online the sirens of police could suddenly be heard past our street, if I looked up holidays in Disney, it would be quiet outside, what seemed like a coincidence turned into 3 years of hell. I have been covertly harassed since 2016, they watch me on the CCTV have sent students and idiots to harass me around the city center, or police showing up suddenly. The trip in town has been some covert harassment ordeal for 2 years, somebody either signals each other via sms or CCTV and I kept getting followed and pestered around town, insulted and somebody even mentioned some actors from Redladder Theatre had participated in this covert harassment to upset me.I am not a criminal and I am not doing anything wrong on my computer, this is bullying and harassment, they have been monitoring my computer for 3 years for no valid reason, miss using their service to let me know they are monintoring my entire computer activiy, some times it is a coincidence but this turned into such a constant episode, my family filmed them doing this near our home. We have had idiots honking their car horns continuesly to specific things I do on my computer off line, this isn't them picking somebody up, this is a car parked at the back side. I have reported him to action fraud and they keep doing this, remotely monitoring my computer. So I can't do nothing on my private computer on leeds, without some police or bent ambulance letting me know. This has been everyday for 2 entire years. The police would let me know in more obvious ways they were seeing all my emails and what I was doing by showing up where I was, like a hospital appointment, two police officers showed up with a woman handcuffed to them and sat right next to me, carrying on until I was forced to leave, this was a day after I sent my second appeal to IPCC. On another occasion two police officers stood near me talking about the email I sent to a law firms about what the police did to me. IV HAD ENOUGH!! Than there is Menwith Hill RAF who knows what the surveillance on their is, in England.
Al, do we both of us know this guy, as I had an ex landlord who was a detective with the Met who himself had been arrested for harrassment, he admitted checking for my record on the PNC database (illegal), he is a guy with seemingly a lot of time on his hands and also rather anti-social nocturnal activities (playing loud music, drunken parties etc). Single bloke, lives next to a couple with a baby. Your timescale fits the situation. Are we sure this isn't the same bloke!?
A neighbour, an (ex!) police officer has regularly logged illicitly into the police computer to view the complaints that my wife and I have made about his (nocturnal!) anti-social activities. He admitted to this and was 'retired' last year. After two months he was re-employed by the same police force, but in a civilian capacity. He is still able to access information on the police computer. With the new surveillance law will it be possible for him (or any police employee) to view my computer use?
My neighbour has been raided twice in the last two nights. The first time they were raided my i-phone started playing up. Siri started talking to me without me asking it to, half an hour later I discovered that the police were raiding the house next door. I got a little paranoid about it, thinking that they had been hacking into my phone, but in the end thought that I was probably being paranoid and that it was unlikely that they were spying on me. However, tonight Siri started playing up again. Again I thought that it as nothing and assumed that my i-phone was playing up. My girlfriend and I started talking about getting a new phone and which one to buy. Next thing I know my housemate texted me to say that the police had just pulled up outside to arrest my neighbour. Now I am not one to be completely paranoid but this seems like too much of a coincidence to me to ignore.
I have been hacked since 2008. throughout to current day.The people responsible i believe are responsible are high authority sources and i say sourfces because this has derived to be more than one source over the last few years.This matter does have vast dynamics to wherefrom every civil liberty i have has been abused. This has ultimately obstructed a civil court case and my rights to go about my business and defend my case. I have lost approx two and a half thousand pounds of equip due to this. Rules to hack have been abused i beleive to gain an insight into this case and info passed on to the opposition in my case. This case is huge in dynamic and one that would blow your mind. These sources have fake websites and various means to fool the public into signing into their websites. PLZ contact me via email as above. Thanks.