The Government wants to introduce sweeping new powers to snoop on the public’s bank accounts. These powers would “turn banks into agents of the state, tasked with spying on everyone’s bank accounts & reporting back to the Government”, warns Rebecca Vincent, interim director at Big Brother Watch.
The privacy and civil liberties group has been campaigning to scrap these powers from the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill and have dubbed the new Bill, a ‘snooper’s charter’.
The Telegraph – Civil servants handed ‘dangerous’ power to spy on public’s bank records