No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance

UpnAtom writes "People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to — will be denied passports from March 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe — more so even than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."

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Re:This is news?

[anaesthetica]

I'm kinda disappointed that people are giving me only very serious responses to my post, calmly explaining the linkage between the railroad synecdoche and the rise of fascists. I had hoped at least one person would riff on the possibility of a segway-based political party, or the completely absurd assertion in my post that "the fascist constituency [are] those that passionately care about rail transport".

Oh well. You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.

Homeland Security

[laxian]

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