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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on March 25, 2009, 03:30:05 PM

Title: The shape of things to come.
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 25, 2009, 03:30:05 PM

So you want to have unrestricted access to all our private, personal data with no oversight. I can see Jaqccuse absolutely loving the chance to have unfettered access to the last of our personal data.

At thsi rate I could be seeing if my imminent redundancy gives me enoough to emigrate.  Banghead

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LONDON (Reuters) - Security at the G20 summit next week will rest in part on Britain's pervasive closed circuit cameras, but in future pre-emptive surveillance could extend to the entire country's personal data.

That is the vision outlined by former security chief David Omand in a study of intelligence methods seen by privacy campaigners as a plan for a vast breach of human rights.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52O2FO20090325?feedType=nl&feedName=uktopnewsearly (http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE52O2FO20090325?feedType=nl&feedName=uktopnewsearly)