<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8f531c91-39ee-48e5-a8e0-af639eb64e54/5D2D04CD-5B0E-4B97-8B63-FCD9D219F6B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thisislondon.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>Councils are recruiting 'citizen snoopers' to report litter louts, dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish properly.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>The 'environment volunteers' will also be responsible for encouraging neighbours to cut down on waste.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thisislondon.co.uk/img/D5146C98-2A2A-4645-A3C7-15BB54AE1C4E" alt="Spy on your neighbours: Councils are recruiting spotters to report litter louts, dog foulers and bad recyclers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>It will fuel fears that Britain is lurching towards a Big Brother society, following the revelation this week that the Home Office is extending some police powers to council staff and private security guards.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>Critics said the latest scheme could easily be abused and encourage a culture of bin spies and curtain twitchers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>Matthew Elliott, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: 'Snooping on your neighbours to report recycling infringements sounds like something straight out of the East German Stasi's copybook.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do"><P>Earlier this year the Daily Mail revealed that councils have hired 850 agents and informers to catch fly-tippers, tax cheats and other offenders.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547177-details/Now+it%27s+the+citizen+snoopers%3A+Councils+recruit+unpaid+volunteers+to+spy+on+their+neighbours/article.do">Tower Hamlets calls its volunteers 'environment champions'.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D2D04CD-5B0E-4B97-8B63-FCD9D219F6B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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