Are the watchers being watched?
Keep on rockin' in the Free
World.
Members of the British Parliament have been shocked to discover that one of their number was bugged by the secret service, violating the forty-year old “Wilson doctrine” that offers MPs immunity from the sort of snooping they are happy for the rest of us to be subject to.
Two conversations between Tooting MP Sadiq Khan and his constituent and childhood friend Babar Ahmad were apparently recorded in the prison where Mr Ahmad is being held.
He is on remand while awaiting deportation to the United States on charges relating to his support for terrorism. Mr Ahmad faces no charges in the UK…
Perhaps it’s time to teach our elected representatives how to use the latest encryption and anonymising tools so that they can protect themselves from the surveillance state they have created?
Or perhaps they would like to do us all a service and dismantle it.
Of course, such a thing would never happen here in the Land of the Free. Right?
Right..?
Posted: Mon - February 4, 2008 at 08:54 AM