The end of privacy as we know it
Philip Johnston writes about the database state in the Daily Telegraph:
What will Tony Blair be remembered for? The post-war debacle in Iraq? Billions largely wasted on unreformed public services? Half-baked constitutional reforms that have threatened the integrity of the United Kingdom?
How about the erosion of privacy and the transformation of Britain into the most snooped-on country in the world this side of Pyongyang? We have more CCTV cameras than the rest of Europe put together. We have thousands of speed cameras linked to numberplate recognition databases. We await with trepidation the arrival of the national identity database from 2008, entry on to which will make it an offence, for the first time, not to inform the “authorities” when we move home.
September 21st, 2006 at 15:49
As i,ve been saying for a long time we have only one last chance to get rid of these totalitarian bastards,make sure at the next election we get rid of this neo-nazi dictatorship.If they get in again we might as well forget about any notion of privacy whatsoever.
But hopefully with these incompotents in charge the system won,t be up and running(as usual with any I.T project this moronic government gets involved with).
The only way to stop abuse of ministerial power is to get proportional representation,and if not get out on the streets and get protesting,it will be no good just sitting back and accepting whatever Blairs successor throws at us.