UK Government Says More Spying Needed

Posted by timothy on Friday October 10, 2008 @05:32PM from the need-to-make-up-for-the-losses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of course (no prizes for guessing). Needless to say, not everyone is as happy as Larry over this: Michael Parker pointed out how us Brits are being 'stalked.' I'm just looking forward to when the data gets lost."

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Re:I'm Glad I Moved to Germany by pandrijeczko · 2008-10-10 20:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Please stop being a martyr.
Nobody moves out of the UK due to surveillance, they do it to enjoy better weather, to have a better cost of living, because of a job or because they want to settle alongside other friends or family.
I'll be moving to Spain in the next 5-10 years for the climate and lifestyle - how many surveillance cameras there are here has no relevance to that decision.

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