<story><title>UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/1700/new-report-reveals-uk-police-are-secretly-downloading-content-suspects-mobile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambe</author><text>Possibly should be labelled &amp;quot;2018&amp;quot; - I believe several courts including the UK High Court and the European Court of Human Rights have found against parts of the Investigatory Powers Act, in addition to ECJ findings in 2016. Practical consequences of that are.. unclear. I&amp;#x27;d think the lack of safeguards in the Act is one of the reasons this has become standard practice.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/press-release/1700/new-report-reveals-uk-police-are-secretly-downloading-content-suspects-mobile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksajadi</author><text>When back in the early 00&amp;#x27;s the UK wanted to introduce a picture ID card, there were huge protests across the country that resulted in the scheme being shelved indefinitely. It took the UK years to even introduce a picture driving license (you might have seen the &amp;quot;counterpart&amp;quot; old driving licenses which were in use until very recently. They were a single A4 sheet with no picture on it).&lt;p&gt;How ironic that despite the continued protests against picture ID cards based on privacy concerns, the UK is the most watched country based on the number of CCTV cameras per square mile, and now this.</text></comment>