funny, metro newspaper (13/9/2000) somehow noted the prof's comments as being in favour of keeping everyones gfp's forever and ever amen.
this already happens with minor criminal offenses such as 1-3 year cautioning. although in court a caution cannot be used (except in certain cases), they are still kept on file and as such are accessible by a range of law-enforcement bodies here.
remember who points it out to you that "you are entitled to witness the destruction of the record upon the expiry of your caution" because you won't see it happen.
it's been happening to us since the year dot though: french "criminal ear"; "i didn't like the look of him, sarge"; police videotaping at protest marches.
my dad remembers that in the 60's there was a unofficial list of certain criminal records compiled under the guise of "resource files" - supposedly for the use of demographers and statisticans, but naturally accessible by MI5 MI6 et al.
you can bet your ass this is still being added to.
but most people however would be quite happy to give up certain freedoms so that those who are considered to be a threat to "them" (---not to mean the state---) could be tracked.
the real worry is not therefore the records themselves but their use - genetic profiling.
"it has come to our attention, sir, that you are 74% likely, at this age, to commit theft. anything you say may be used as evidence"..
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pray tell, who the hell got wi-fi out there?
i expect burnings of wireless transitters as english cultural intrusion by welsh nationalists.
it'll be like burning man crossed with the wicker man
shafts, passages, probes
you guys have really got to get a thesaurus
or i gotta get a better sense of humour.
funny, metro newspaper (13/9/2000) somehow noted the prof's comments as being in favour of keeping everyones gfp's forever and ever amen.
this already happens with minor criminal offenses such as 1-3 year cautioning. although in court a caution cannot be used (except in certain cases), they are still kept on file and as such are accessible by a range of law-enforcement bodies here.
remember who points it out to you that "you are entitled to witness the destruction of the record upon the expiry of your caution" because you won't see it happen.
it's been happening to us since the year dot though: french "criminal ear"; "i didn't like the look of him, sarge"; police videotaping at protest marches.
my dad remembers that in the 60's there was a unofficial list of certain criminal records compiled under the guise of "resource files" - supposedly for the use of demographers and statisticans, but naturally accessible by MI5 MI6 et al.
you can bet your ass this is still being added to.
but most people however would be quite happy to give up certain freedoms so that those who are considered to be a threat to "them" (---not to mean the state---) could be tracked.
the real worry is not therefore the records themselves but their use - genetic profiling.
"it has come to our attention, sir, that you are 74% likely, at this age, to commit theft. anything you say may be used as evidence"..