Archive for October 30th, 2009

From paedophilia to speeding, bureaucrats need a sense of proportion over the risks

Posted at Friday, October 30th, 2009 by andrew

Eamonn Butler writes in the Daily Telegraph, reflecting on why government bureaucracies seem obsessed with hoarding every last snippet of information about every individual: Watford Borough Council’s decision to ban parents from the playground in case they are paedophiles are another case of the Bully State gone mad. We’ve seen it in the past week [...]

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