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Thanks to akicif for the heads-up, propogating this one because it's important and fucking scary.

A headline (Government sweeps aside privacy rights) and a leader (British Liberty, RIP) from today's Guardian. It's not just the Police, Intelligence services, and the tax authorities who can get at anyone's telephone and internet communications data without a warrant or court order, but seven Whitehall departments, every local authority in the country, NHS bodies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and 11 other public bodies ranging from the postal services commission to the food standards agency....

But it seems it's all necessary to continue the War on Terrorism. So that's all right, then.

Unchanged from akicif's text because I can't improve on how he put it! See also "'Snoop' plans raise privacy fears" (BBC News)

Update and, following wechsler's example, here's my PGP public key.

Comments

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Well, quite.

It seems that the only way to 'regain' our rights and freedoms is to devote our lives to doing so.

Voting once every five years between two parties who agree on 99% of all of this will not be any help at all!

Perhaps we should start a new political party. Or should we infiltrate an existing one and bend it to our will?

Yes, that's it. We split into two main groups. Half join Labour, and half join Conservative. In each, we turn all the factions against each other, thus clearing the way for our SLAVE ARMY OF MUTANT CYBORGS to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!

Then we can restore all the freedoms we want to...


J