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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prison Planet<\/p>\n

James Slack
\nUK Daily Mail<\/a>
\nMonday, May 24th, 2010<\/p>\n

Council snoopers have used a controversial Big Brother anti-terror law to spy on people making unwanted donations to charity shops.<\/p>\n

Covert cameras were placed inside shop windows to film anyone who left bags of books, clothes or CDs outside a branch with a view to prosecuting them for ‘fly-tipping’.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary operation was among 8,575 instances of town halls using covert surveillance rights granted under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act against the public in the past two years.<\/p>\n

It is the equivalent of 11 secret missions being carried out by bureaucrats every day.<\/p>\n

They range from undercover patrols for dog walkers whose animals are suspected of breaking dog-fouling rules to spying on their own staff and on smokers believed to be flouting the nationwide ban.<\/p>\n

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