RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

The one good thing that an interception of communications official could do would be to keep an eye on the tens of thousands of data and interception requests the garda make in Ireland.

The UK has one, it can be argued of course, that they need one, but thats not the point.

One thing, the office would have access to the interception requests and make these requests known to the public:

the UK surveillance watchdog, reports that 4,000 “errors” were made over the report period. Most concerned less serious slip-ups involving requests to obtain lists of telephone calls and individual email addresses, but 67 involved errors that led to the direct interception of communications.

[Full report available here. NB: pdf link]