5. Misuse of RIPA?

There are plenty of other cases where the RIPA has been used out of context. 

There does seem to issues arising from councils using RIPA for seemingly minor matters

See

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24721256

Other stories include:

In April 2008 using the powers defined in RIPA, a council officials in Dorset put three children and their parents under surveillance both at home and in their daily movements simply to check whether they lived in a particular school catchment area. This was to try and prove that they were trying to obtain a place for their children at a popular local school when they lived a distance away.

The same council put fishermen under covert surveillance to check for the illegal harvesting of cockles and clams.

Other councils in the UK have conducted undercover operations regulated by RIPA against dog fouling and fly-tipping. 

It has been claimed that local councils are conducting over a thousand RIPA-based covert surveillance operations every month for petty offenses such as under-age smoking and breaches of planning regulations.