From The Guardian:
" Private firm may track all email and calls
'Hellhouse' of personal data will be created, warns former Director of Public Prosecutions "
- a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
With policies like this: how does Labour ever hope to get re-elected ?
It shocks me that the idea even crossed their minds.
Does anyone agree with this idea?
I'd rather fear a terrorist than Big Brother.
"External estimates of the cost of the superdatabase have been put as high as £12bn, twice the cost of the ID cards scheme, and the consultation paper, to be published towards the end of next month, will include an option of putting it into the hands of the private sector in an effort to cut costs."
Policies like this can sound very rational at the time yet in practice they can be completely different.
In practice they are always carried out by fallible humans sometimes uncaring, unthinking and even corrupt.
Recently a mother did the 'right thing' by reporting to the police that she had found a gun in her autistic son's bedroom. He was being victimised and pressured by a local gang into hiding their gun for them.
The police's irrational, thoughtless actions have now ruined this vulnerable young man's and his responsible mother's life for ever. A caring family has been torn apart.
It could happen to you with this kind of blind trust in 'the government' to take care of us.
We need more control over 'Big Brother' not less.
We are increasingly surrendering our powers to 'authorities', local government, bureaucrats, with dire consequences.
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