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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. Thats would make a nice tax rebate check by Entropy98 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thats almost 200 pounds for every man woman and child in the UK.
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  2. I'm Glad I Moved to Germany by stevedcc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've escaped all this crap by moving to Germany. I never really like the way britain is becoming a surveillance state and moving here was such a breath of fresh air.

    It wasn't that hard to find an IT job either, only one month of serious searching.

    I'll never need one of these british ID cards, I'm not paying for that bloody database, and the DNA database here has people's names taken out of it if they aren't found guilty.

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  3. I suppose that's one view by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    However, where I work the new building was designed and OK'd. The contracted parties are EXTREMELY unhappy because no changes were made.

    They were expecting a change which they could charge for. The change then shows up other changes "needed" and they can be charged.

    As it was, the company didn't do more than break even no the deal.

    Contractors LOVE changes. Charging for them is the continuing stream.

  4. Re:Abuse of power ? by kbg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Many people here in Iceland are not happy about being labeled terrorists by the UK. Iceland is probably the most peace loving nation in the world. We have no army, the police here doesn't carry guns and to my knowledge no Icelander has ever been suspected or linked to any terrorism in the history of Iceland.