In March 2017, the government announced that Theresa May had appointed Lord Justice Fulford as the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/beefed-surveillance-watchdog-oversee-whitehall-investigatory-powers
Lord Justice Fulford, the senior presiding judge for England and Wales and now investigatory powers commissioner, has been tasked with ensuring the lawfulness of acts of surveillance such as intercepting phone calls, running agents and bulk collection of communications data.
He heads up the new Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO), which was introduced under the Investigatory Powers Act – dubbed by critics “the snooper’s charter” because it allows state agencies to intercept communication and access some databases and records regardless of suspicion of criminal activity.
Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims
The draft investigatory powers bill published on Wednesday by the home secretary aims to provide a “comprehensive and comprehensible” overhaul of Britain’s fragmented surveillance laws.
It comes two-and-a-half years after the disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden of the scale of secret mass surveillance of the global traffic in confidential personal data carried out by Britain’s GCHQ and the US’s National Security Agency (NSA).
It will replace the current system of three separate commissioners with a senior judge as a single investigatory powers commissioner.
Who is Lord Justice Fulford? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Fulford
Sir Adrian Bruce Fulford PC QC (born 8 January 1953), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Fulford, is a Lord Justice of Appeal and as of 3 March 2017 holds the position of Investigatory Powers Commissioner.
In March 2014, an article in** the Mail on Sunday alleged that Fulford had been a supporter of the Paedophile Information Exchange in the 1970s**.[14]
After these allegations, he stepped down from judging criminal cases and an official investigation by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office took place. The investigation, by Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, concluded on 18 June 2014 that the allegations against Fulford were "without substance" and he "was not and had never been a supporter of PIE or its aims".[15] Following his exoneration, Fulford resumed sitting as a judge on the full range of appeals.
In that Daily Mail article from March 2014:
High Court judge and the child sex ring: Adviser to Queen was founder of paedophile support group to keep offenders out of jail
An investigation by the Mail on Sunday has discovered that Fulford was a founder member of a campaign to defend PIE while it was openly calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four.
Fulford was a founder member of an organisation called Conspiracy Against Public Morals set up to defend PIE leaders facing criminal charges.
It later published a sickening pamphlet claiming that children would be freed from the oppression of the state and their parents if they were allowed to have sex with adults.
Last year he was nominated as an Appeal Court judge by David Cameron and appointed to the Privy Council, the elite group of senior politicians, judges and clergy who advise the Queen on constitutional matters.
Muted disquiet from the press about the exoneration of Fulford : The report exonerating Lord Justice Fulford should be published
Judge Fulford Advisor To Queen Kept Paedophiles Out Of Jail As Abuse From PIE Went On Massive Scale
So, it seems that the surveillance is in the hands of the pedophiles.
I'd like to end here with a recent message from Snowden: Snowden’s Message on Facebook’s data leak scandal with Cambridge Analytica
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Sackajahweeda ago
I love how they specify that it was "in the 70's" as if this is a tenured subject. I bet you could see that it is much like the cia or the mafia in which former means nothing as it is a life sentence. I am sure you could decipher the degree of this by how he decides his cases.
letsdothis1 ago
Yes because it's all 'historical', dontcha know.