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UK Gov't Creating Secret Mega Database On Citizens Without Informing Parliament (theregister.co.uk)
Alexander J Martin, reporting for The Register: The Home Office is secretly creating a centralised database on the good folk of Britain without presenting the capability increases to the public or subjecting them to Parliamentary scrutiny. The Register can reveal the project, which was described as simply a "replatforming" of the department's aging IT infrastructure, has already begun to roll out, with the "first wave" of changes being delivered in what it is calling the Technology Platforms for Tomorrow (TPT) programme. TPT will lay the foundations for this mega database by ushering in "core infrastructure, compute platforms and Live Service capability" changes, primarily using Hadoop, the open source software framework for centralising databases and allowing batch queries and analyses to be run across them in bulk.
WTF UKGOV?!!!
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPY ON YOUR CITIZENS!
The way it is SUPPOSED to work is that all five eyes countries spy on each others' citizens, then share their data with each other.
So this should be America spying on UK citizens.
Or Australia.
Or New Zealand.
Or sorry, Canada.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
There's no such thing as a British citizen. The correct term is SUBJECT.
Nonsense.
I'm a British citizen, not a subject.
If you don't believe me, take a look at my passport and see what it says there.