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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. Re:More jobs! by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "As a brit in this damn place i can tell you its not legal unless you have a licence, which covers shotguns and gun clubs, even airsoft guns are now illegal to buy unless you are a club member and skirmish. Criminals have more rights than straight ppl here now on the protecting your family front , you cant touch them if they break in your home, they can sue you for assault" - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071014223548AAfrOyQ

    "Yes you can legally own a gun if you have a permit, but you have to prove you have legitimate reason for having a gun and this is usually because its needed in your line of work - ie you are a policemen, soldier, farmer, member of a gun club etc. Its very, very hard to get a gun."

    "The 2012 Olympics

    Following the awarding of the 2012 Olympic Games to London, the government announced that special dispensation would be granted to allow the various shooting events to go ahead, as had been the case previously for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. However, it was still illegal for Britain's top pistol shooters to train in England, Scotland or Wales. As a result, British shooters currently spend 20 to 30 days a year training in Switzerland, and receive no public sports funding because their events are considered illegal in the UK" - wikipedia

    Gun Control's Twisted Outcome (Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.)
    http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome

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