The UK’s police forces pay telecoms groups millions of pounds each year for information such as call records and the personal details and movements of customers, according to data collected by the FT.

The government, which is seeking to extend its surveillance powers, has paid telecoms companies including BT, Vodafone, EE and Virgin Media more than £37m for data on customers and their activities in the past five years.

Reported by the Financial Times. You can read the full story here. 

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.