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By Michael Peel | Britain may have sleepwalked into a surveillance society, but you would not know that from the watchdog supposed to stop it happening.由Michael果皮|英国可能有sleepwalked成为一个监视社会，但你不会知道，从看门狗要阻止它发生。 Seven-and-a-half years and more than 600 cases into its life, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – which deals with public complaints about unreasonable official snooping – has upheld just a single claim. 7和1年半以上的600例纳入其生活，调查权力法庭-其中涉及公众的投诉，不合理的官方窥探-坚持只是一个单一的索赔。
The disclosure comes amid growing concerns about the use of tough surveillance powers by hundreds of local councils and other authorities to monitor petty street crime, boat-owners accused of illegal fishing, and even parents suspected of lying about their addresses to get their children into better schools.披露之际，越来越多的关注，使用强硬的监察权力，数以百计的地方议会和其他主管部门，监察零用街头犯罪，船民业主被控非法捕鱼，甚至家长怀疑倒卧在他们的地址，让他们的孩子到更好的学校。
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal told the Financial Times it had backed just one complaint about unwarranted official spying since it was set up in October 2000.调查权力法庭告诉金融时报，它支持的只是一宗投诉约不必要的官员从事间谍活动，因为这是成立于2000年10月。 Up to December 2006 it had dealt with 554 cases, a number that is likely to have risen by at least 100 since then.截至2006年12月它已处理五五四案件，这一数字很可能上升了至少100名自那时以来。
Privacy campaigners say the tribunal’s reluctance to uphold complaints is a sign that there are too few safeguards against misuse of broad-ranging surveillance laws brought in by the government.隐私活动家说，法庭的不愿意坚持的投诉是有迹象表明太少，防范滥用范围广泛的监控带来的法律在由政府决定。
Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a pressure group, said a lack of funding meant the tribunal had never “produced a finding that is of any value to anybody whatever”.西蒙戴维斯，主任隐私国际，一个压力团体说，由于缺乏资金，是指法庭从来没有“产生了寻找的是没有任何价值，无论对任何人” 。
“All of these bodies that proclaim oversight function suffer from the same symptom: they were never expected to do anything dynamic.” “所有这些机构宣布的监督职能，受到相同的症状：他们从未预期做任何事情的动态” 。
Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, has warned that Britain has sleepwalked into a “surveillance society” without much debate about what has happened.理查德托马斯，资讯专员，警告说，英国已sleepwalked变成了一个“监视社会”没有太多的辩论，发生了什么事。 According to Mr Thomas, each person has their image captured on average 300 times a day by closed-circuit television cameras, while car number plate readers are forecast to take 50m pictures a day this year.据汤明善，每个人都有自己的形象，对抓获的300倍，平均每天闭路电视摄影机，而汽车车牌的读者预测采取五十米的照片，每天今年。
Almost nothing is known about the surveillance complaints that come before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, as it does not make its rulings public and does not tell unsuccessful claimants why their claims were rejected.几乎没有任何已知的监察投诉，指来之前的调查权力法庭，因为它没有作出裁决，公众并没有告诉不成功的索赔人，为什么他们的诉求被驳回。 Even the ruling made in the case of the successful claim remains confidential.即使作出的裁决，在该案件的成功索赔仍然保密。
Although the tribunal said it had made six judgments that would be published because they dealt with important points of law, only one of these – dating back to 2006 – is available on the website so far.虽然法庭说，它已作出的判决认为，六会公布，因为他们处理的重要的法律要点，其中只有一个，这些-可以追溯到2 006年-可于网站上，因此至今。 David Payne, tribunal secretary, said “resource problems” at the tribunal meant it had not yet had time to post the others, although it would do so in due course.大卫佩恩，法庭局长说， “资源问题”在法庭意味着它尚未有时间张贴他人，虽然这样做在适当时候。
The tribunal monitors the use of the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which gives almost 800 agencies – including the country’s 474 local councils – powers to conduct surveillance and access communication records, as well as giving a more limited number of authorities, including the security services and the Scottish Executive, the right to intercept telephone and e-mail traffic.法庭显示器使用2000年规管调查权力的行为，这使近800机构-包括该国的4 74名地方议会-权力，以进行监视和存取通讯记录，以及给予更多的数目有限的当局，包括保安服务和苏格兰行政院，有权拦截，电话和电子邮件的交通。
The diverse areas in which “necessary” and “proportionate” surveillance is permitted under the act include tax collecting, protecting public health and safeguarding “the interests of the economic well-being of the UK”.不同的领域中的“必要”和“相称”监视是允许根据该法，包括税收，收集，保护公众健康和维护“的利益的经济福祉的英国” 。
A local authority in Poole, Dorset, has come under fire in the past few weeks for its vigorous use of snooping powers, including to work out the school catchment area a family lived in and to identify the people responsible for repeatedly damaging an apartment door entry system.一个地方当局在普尔，多塞特，已受到火灾在过去数星期以来，为严厉使用窃听的权力，包括工作，学校的集水区，一个家庭生活在，并确定负责人，因多次破坏公寓门禁系统制度。
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