Comments on: Spy centre will track you on holiday

By: Paying billions for our database state - Front Page News - NewsSpotz

Paying billions for our database state - Front Page News - NewsSpotz — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:11 +0000

[...] Systems over the next 10 years. As yet there is no publicised estimate for the spy centre at Wythenshawe, which will track all our movements. Known costs are about £1.5bn.Interception modernisation [...]

By: Paying billions for our database state

Paying billions for our database state — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:58:05 +0000

[...] Systems over the next 10 years. As yet there is no publicised estimate for the spy centre at Wythenshawe, which will track all our movements. Known costs are about [...]

By: Stop Hitting Me Officer

Stop Hitting Me Officer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:52:18 +0000

‘ … to be housed in an industrial estate in Wythenshawe, near Manchester … ‘

Conjures up wonderful visions of a battalion or two of Civil Serf-Ants hunched over a million card-index Rolodex. Extra staff for the “B” (Benidorm) and the “F” (Florida) and the “A” (Afghanistan) and “P” (Pakistan, cross-reference “T” for Training Camp). Tea-trolley twice a day with cake on Fridays. Security, of course, will be an octogenarian chap wearing a cloth-cap and with a hut by the gate near a blazing brazier and a steaming teapot.

The British media will, naturally, be making a note in their diary to check that once the database is set up this terrorism nonsense is ended once and for all …

By: Caesar

Caesar — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:50:27 +0000

I wonder how the government will spin this one? Fight against terrorism/homebred extremism? Border/Immigration security? Tackling serious organised gang crimes? Other nations have similar systems?

We’ve heard it all before, and each time it equates to using a nuclear bomb to squat a fly.