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Originally Posted by Damien
Labour pretty much gave the nod to this today with a fantastic bit of toadying from political chameleon Burnham today.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Their only regret is that they couldn't get it through themselves. Illiberal tools.
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Indeed.
BBC News: Giant database plan 'Orwellian'
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Originally Posted by BBC News, Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic have been condemned as "Orwellian".
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the police and security services needed new powers to keep up with technology.
And she promised that the content of conversations would not be stored, just times and dates of messages and calls.
But the Lib Dems slammed the idea as "incompatible with a free country", while the Tories called on the government to justify its plans...
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Ah, Jacqui Smith... yet another one of the many awful Home Secretaries we have suffered.