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

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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Re:Prosecute this irresponsible hack!

[clickclickdrone]

any serious journalist publishes this sort of thing elsewhere like The Guardian

You do realise that by and large the Guardian is seen as a joke these days and is turning into a Buzzfeed clone? Apart from anything else, Duncan Campbell has a long and very respectable reputation for digging where few dare to go and has uncovered a hell of a lot of otherwise secret goings on over many decades.

Orwellian

[nerdyalien]

It is amazing how George Orwell predicted all these half-a-century or so ago.
Even Yes Minister has one episode on a similar issue, that was three decades back.

Are we ignoring warnings from the past? or decided to be selective in terms of learning from the past?