Egg Czar to wear jackboots in new Snooper's Charter

THE UK GOVERNMENT'S Snooper Charter will allow surveillance of emails and phone calls by various government bodies and local authorities and the .gov will slip it through parliament on the nod when everyone's forgotten about it after the summer holidays.

Let us assure you that the UK government never sleeps, however, and has posted the authorisation levels required for different bodies which will be able to inspect our emails and mobile phone calls when our politicos decide to show their libertarian tendencies.

The outfit has posted two appendices showing the appropriate authorisation levels needed by the different authorities recently, and we're pleased to report that if the Egg Marketing Inspectorate needs to examine your spam, it will have those rights too.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain might need to check whether your email contains illicit references to salycilic acid, so the Director of Professional Standards can view your spam as well.

And the chairman of the Personal Investment Authority will also be able to investigate what the hell you've been saying about Abbey National behind his back.

Althought the UK government backed down from extending the Home Office's Snooper's Charter earlier this summer, after our Minister of the Interior's son told his dad it was a daft idea, it is still the intention of the .gov to give the Egg Marketing Inspectorate those rights too, as well as your local council, of course. The Easter Bunny will be safe in Mr Blunkett's hands...

here and here for the whole dismal list. µ

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