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UK Government Says More Spying Needed

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Next step by Warll · · Score: 5, Funny

    And of course it is the duty of all good citizens to help out where they can, I already placed cameras in all the local women's washrooms!

  2. Re:I'll take the risk then! by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Terrorism", when looked at number of deaths per year, is basically a total non-issue. How many people have been killed by terrorism in the UK in the last 50 years?

    I know it's a rhetorical question but I've just been looking this up myself. This includes the IRA, so just under 2000 including terrorists being killed, according to Wikipedia. That's 40 a year. Slightly higher than the number of tea cosy related accidents.