Untapped potential in telephones
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announced • last night's 11*7+196€ Financial Times, July 22.
THE least 30% of phone conversations "bugged" by the Post Office.
This unit is believed to be based in the Post Office's Martlesham Heath Centre and to be run by the Post Office and the British Security Services.
The unit is thought to .be headed by John Bridle, widely acknowledged as the leading world authority on voice transcription, but who has not published any significant work for five or six years. Presumably all his work is classified as secret.
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The Home Office's denial of being involved in computerbased voice transcription is belied by the revelation in Computing that they have just ordered, and perhaps received, an American number-crunching device that is ideally suited to the processing of speech recordings.
In April, the Home Secretary was forced to give in the Commons official figures for the number of warrants issued for 'phone tapping' for the first time in 23 years. Correspondent