dailymail.co.uk — Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail, text message, internet search and online purchase in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime.
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Closed AccountJul 16, 2008
Won't be long now. Damn you Patriot Act.
dning88Jul 17, 2008
Does anyone have that much storage? I mean, Google only holds static HTML and look at the data centers that it builds. The government needs to store EVERYTHING?
Closed AccountJul 17, 2008
or maybe you could just pay for entertainment and support the artists and not do terrorism or anything against the law?
slezJul 17, 2008
In a way you got to give the British Government some brownie points for being honest to their citizens about the database.
reaperhatchJul 17, 2008
freedom, life and happiness./America<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WkH1vU9XZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WkH1vU9XZs</a>
locojonesJul 17, 2008
We should attach electrodes to George Orwell's body and tap the limitless energy from his corpse rolling in the grave. It's a shame that, sooner than later, 1984 will have to be moved to the Non-Fiction section. I'm confident that he wrote it as a warning and not as a manual for the oppression of the masses.If we're to believe the rhetoric that mass, unparticularized, dragnet surveillance of the population will stop "terrorism," then why stop there? The logic would hold that if you deployed the authorities onto the streets, interrogated citizens going about their daily business as to their citizenship, their purposes, their relatives, etc. and always checked their papers to make sure they were who they say they are, that it would be even more of a deterrent toward extremist acts. Throw up roadblocks at all intersections, search vehicles, have random home inspections, allow all mail to be read by the government before delivery, why limit it to checking e-mails and internet traffic?The fact that they are not doing this highlights the huge charade created by fear-mongering over the boogey-man just to extend their own powers. It's sickening, in whatever country it occurs in.
travelsonicJul 17, 2008
Assuming without any basis... how intelligent. *rolls eyes*
Closed AccountJul 17, 2008
Labour are certainly trying as hard as possible to get that landslide Conservative defeat in 2009/10.I don't understand why the Mail is reporting on it only now, I recall reading about this a few months back.But as I've said before, until a bill that actually includes this is passed by the Commons and Lords (I can see the Lords rejecting this if it had the database bit included, so it'll be a few years of delay until it gets forced through) I am not too worried.I really don't understand why people keep digging Mail stories.
amazetbmJul 18, 2008
Actually, he would be terrified.