Case Study 2
A man is in a shopping mall, and snaps a photo of what could be a view up the skirt of a woman. She complains to mall security. The man has left the mall. The police are called, the man was on the phone at precisely 10:40am according to mall CCTV.
The police dig into their big database to locate who the man was and where he is now. They send a few cars around to go lock him up and confiscate his phone. While they're at it, they raid his house and seize his computer. They also know this from the location logs of his phone.
The phone does not have a picture on it, but perhaps he has deleted it, so they seize it and send it to forensics for checking. A sort of blurry photo of some legs is found, and he receives a caution which he accepts.
He is then put on the sex offenders register as a threat to society and he is banned from working with small children.
There, now that shows how important it is to log everyone all the time.
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Case Study 3
A woman claims expenses for a 'second home' the employer thinks she is fiddling and calls the police, who track her telephone logs and determine that her home is really up in Reddich where she claims is her 'second' home.
The police arrest her for fraudulantly claiming expenses, and seize her computer, well you never know, perhaps there's a bomb making plan on it, or something.
Another success for mass surveillance!
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Case Study 4
Mrs Miggings, one of the new 'amateur police helpers' see some bottles in the bins of Mrs Mumtaz and suspects a terrorist bomb. She reports it to the MET, who grab all the internet and phone traffic for that house.
It appears the woman has been looking at a website which is written in some foreign squiggle writing! Must be Jihadist material!
So they raid her house and seize her computer, and phones, and the Home Secretary puts her on a control order, so she can't work, have a bank account, or live without his permission.
Another success for mass surveillance!
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Case Study 5
A German man comes as a tourist to the UK, carrying 15000 euros spending money. The money blows away and his receipt showing he withdrew it from a bank in Germany. The police immediately suspect he is a German drug lord smuggling money in from far off scary foreign land.
They grab his phone, and track who he's called in Britain. RIPA raids follow, and lots of computers are seized. This is still pending, but thank god we have the police to protect us from the scary monsters under our bed!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
