Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve has slammed the
"
creeping growth of a
surveillance society" at this week's Conservative Party
conference.
Dopminic Grieve said the public was "fed up with the creeping
growth of a
surveillance society which intrudes into their private lives
and loses their personal data".
Grieve also used his speech to attack
the government's national identity card scheme. The national
identity card scheme will be officially launched this month with ID
cards issued to foreign nationals from outside the European
Economic Area.
Grieve said the government had "created the worst of all
worlds". It had increased surveillance while levels of crime had
heightened. "We're less free. We're less safe," he claimed.
He also attacked the use by councils of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act to snoop on citizens whilst investigating
minor misdemenours.