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In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances

Posted by kdawson on from the now-get-rid-of-the-damn-cameras dept.

PeterAitch writes "The UK government's Home Office has put a hold on their surveillance project to track details of everybody's email, mobile phone, text, and Web use after being warned of problems with privacy as well as technical feasibility and high costs." Four hours before the above Guardian story was filed, the BBC reported that the same Home Office insisted that it will push ahead with plans "to compel communication service providers to collect and retain records of communications from a wider range of internet sources, from social networks through to chatrooms and unorthodox methods, such as within online games."

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  1. identity cards by jipn4 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    <sarcasm>
    At least the UK doesn't have identity cards! We may be the most surveilled and recorded society in the world, with neighbors spying on neighbors, but we don't have identity cards. We elect conservative governments (of either party) who may put cameras everywhere, record where we walk and drive, and anal probe us at airports, but we don't have identity cards. Did I mention that the UK doesn't have identity cards and won't stoop to the communist and fascist continental depths of having identity cards? Yeah. The UK rules [not so much anymore].
    &lt/sarcasm>