PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:00PM from the checking-the-list dept.

gb7djk writes: The investigative journalist Duncan Campbell has written an article at The Register claiming that the UK Government has been secretly creating a database of all telephone calls, financial and travel records for the last 15 years. From the article: "Located inside the riverside headquarters of the Security Service, MI5, in Thames House, PRESTON works alongside and links to massive databases holding telephone call records, internet use records, travel, financial, and other personal records held by the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC), a little known intelligence support agency set up by Tony Blair's government in a 1999 plan to combat encryption and provide a national centre for internet surveillance and domestic codebreaking."

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The UK has experience in codebreaking... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 20:32 · Score: 0, Insightful

And they have a history of illustrious experts on that.
Then they submit their experts to hormone treatment and drive them to suicide.
A bit disgusting, but hey.