UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to clamp down on local councils who use anti-terror laws to catch litterbugs and other minor offenders.
Increasing concern that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) is being used as a "snoopers-charter" could mean that only elected councillors or senior officers would be able to approve secret filming or the monitoring of telephone records.
Read examples of how local authorities have been using the controversial law.
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