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New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database
POPE Mad Mitch writes "The BBC is reporting that Tony Blair is going to unveil plans on Monday to build a single database to pull together and share every piece of personal data from all government departments. The claimed justification is to improve public services. The opposition party and the Information Commission have both condemned the plan as another step towards a 'Big Brother' society. Sharing information in this way is currently prohibited by the 'over-zealous' data protection legislation. An attempt to build a similar database was a key part of the, now severely delayed, ID card scheme."
britain is nothing like the rest of europe, in fact most countries within europe are nothing like each other. you use britain and europe as interchangable regions when they are not, british laws don't effect european countries. this fact obivously escapes you since your american and have no concept of the world past your own city block.
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Some of his past foibles for those that may not have followed his illustrious career as the Prime Minister who has turned Britain into a nanny state with a big, middle class-friendly smile. Well, I should be careful by qualifying that by saying it depends on how you look at it. Europeans may be wont to think that America is full of gun violence, that it's all like the Old West, but I go "HOLY SHIT!" when I read some of the stories that come out of Britain under Blair with yobs and how the police deal with them. I've lived my entire life in the South, in small towns and even the worst I have seen of police here pales in comparison to how much the British police seem to side with criminals against law-abiding citizens. I gotta be honest, I'd feel safer walking through any working class town in the South than the equivalent in Britain. Between violent criminals and politically correct, criminal-loving, politicized police, Tony Blair has done a lot from what I've seen in the media to totally fuck up Britain.