Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A threat to our way of life
The information commissioner today has joined those of us who are objecting to the creation of a "super-database" tracking every phone call, text, email and internet usage in Britain in real time:
Richard Thomas said there needed to be the "fullest public debate" over the justification for - and implications of - a database which held details of everyone's telephone and internet communications and was potentially accessible by a wide range of law enforcement agencies.
"Do we really want the police, security services and other organs of the state to have access to more and more aspects of our private lives?" the commissioner asked at the launch of his annual report.
Precisely. The proposal is insidious and barking mad. It needs to be consigned to the dustbin before it gets any further.
Richard Thomas said there needed to be the "fullest public debate" over the justification for - and implications of - a database which held details of everyone's telephone and internet communications and was potentially accessible by a wide range of law enforcement agencies.
"Do we really want the police, security services and other organs of the state to have access to more and more aspects of our private lives?" the commissioner asked at the launch of his annual report.
Precisely. The proposal is insidious and barking mad. It needs to be consigned to the dustbin before it gets any further.
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"Do we really want the police, security services and other organs of the state to have access to more and more aspects of our private lives?...."
This seems very Orwellian to me, what are they going to do with the information when they get it? I expect you could easily employ serval tens if not hundreds of thousands of people to sift through this information - good job unemployment is on the way up!
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This seems very Orwellian to me, what are they going to do with the information when they get it? I expect you could easily employ serval tens if not hundreds of thousands of people to sift through this information - good job unemployment is on the way up!
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