New powers to monitor emails and phone-calls

Keith Bristow, director general of the National Crime Agency, said in an interview with the Guardian that it would be necessary to win public consent for new powers to monitor data about emails and phone calls...

Bristow said law enforcement organisations investigating suspected paedophiles and drug and human traffickers were now operating in a digital world, and needed the ability to prove a communication took place between identified persons at a particular time and place. "We are running some very serious risks. This is about public safety – we need the powers to do our job in a digital age. We need to set out our case," he added

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/06/digital-freedoms-terrorism-crime-uk

 

 

The protection of children against paedophiles will be one of the arguments used to justify spying on the public. Meanwhile politicians will continue to protect themselves. Here`s Exaro:

 

Operation Fernbridge loses chief as pressure mounts on MET.  Scotland Yard`s senior detective who was heading its wide-ranging investigations into paedophile politicians has been forced to quit.... 

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5381/operation-fernbridge-loses-chief-as-pressure-mounts-on-met

 And here`s the Sunday Mercury:

Investigative reporter Mark Williams Thomas passed on the names to officers working under Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan Police inquiry investigating sex abuse allegations in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. 

Thomas, who two years ago helped expose Savile as one of the most prolific paedophiles in British history by presenting a documentary first highlighting his abuse, said the new claims involve some "very powerful" people who are alleged to have committed sex abuse crimes between the 1950s and 1980s. 

"The names I have supplied are senior police officers, politicians, local authority officials and senior civil servants – people with a lot to lose."  He added that unlike previous convictions such as Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, and Dave Lee Travis, none of the new suspects are celebrities but work for the government or local police. 

He told the Sunday Mercury

"I know of another twelve public figures and that is a minimum. Sadly some of these people still remain untouchable because they are so powerful. Whilst huge progress has been made following Savile expose - some very powerful people still need to be brought to justice."

 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/operation-yewtree-new-sex-abuse-suspects-are-untouchable-senior-policemen-politicians-1468682