Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK

mishmash writes "The Times of London is reporting a proposal for a massive government database holding details of all phone calls, emails, and time spent on the Internet. This is to be justified as being 'part of the fight against crime and terrorism.' Quoting: 'Internet service providers and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.' If you want to write to representatives to let them know your views, contact details are available at Write to Them." UK telecoms are already required to keep records of phone calls and text messages for 12 months, accessible by subpoena; the requirement is already slated to expand to records of Internet usage, emails, and VoIP. This new proposal aims to centralize all that information in a single database in the Home Office.

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Re:Seriously, what is wrong with the United Kingdo

[icebike]

What's wrong?

The British Empire, that's what.

By allowing entry into Britian to anyone with a British passport (which is to say anyone from any of current and former the British colonies) the British have lost control of their own land and country. They have lost control of their borders.

These measures are a desperate attempt by native British to retain rule of the British Islands, to keep from becoming Britanistan, or ruled by people of African, Indian, or South East Asian descent.

The average British citizen does not object because, they believe, its not aimed at them, its designed to monitor and control those "others".