Media Interviews by Ibrahim Hasan


From time to time Ibrahim Hasan is asked to comment and analyse news stories and headlines where there is a data protection, freedom of information or surveillance law angle.

Click below to listen to a selection of recent interviews:

Misuse of Data by the Police : Radio 5 Live

Donal MacIntyre Programme
6th April 2008 (7.45pm)

This followed an FOI request by the BBC to all police forces in the UK which revealed that:

There were 500 incidents across the UK of police and support staff accessing the police national database and records.  The figures cover 2005 to Jan 2007. All levels of people are making illegal searches - support staff, constables, sergeants.  For a whole range of reasons.  Domestic reasons....searching for info on ex partners, family members eg. Checking crime complaint record about son.  Right through to officers handing over info to criminals.  Eg a Police Constable was sentenced to 10 months after passing on info to criminals. 

Some forces have a lot of info on violations whereas other have nothing.  This could be because some have a bad problem and others are whiter than white.  But quite likely that it's because some forces don't record violations or even conduct regular spot checks.

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Surveillance in Local Government: Radio 4

Today on Radio 4 with John Humphreys
6th February 2008 (7.10am)

This interview followed the story in February 2008 about the police bugging conversations between Sadiq Khan MP and a constituent charged with terrorist offences. It raised the profile of surveillance carried out under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

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