RIP article

[Ian Johnson]

>What we probably need is to split the Act up into different 
>pieces, so people no longer get confused between the police 
>tapping the phones of serious organised criminals and local 
>authorities writing down the phone number off the side of a 
>van they've just seen do some fly-tipping.

Yes
(eg How could you 
>ever get the latter judicially authorised on a case by case 
>basis in advance?)

But the intrusive bit in this is the reverse-lookup. That could
easily be subjected to court oversight before permission was granted.

Ian