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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

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I don't know, to be honest, but as it talks about NHS bodies in Scotland and Norn Iron, I suspect it's not a devolved issue. Which means we're looking at the Lib Dems or no-one, really (I can't see a single issue party getting off the ground on this, somehow). At least if it was a devolved matter we'd have the extra choices of Liberals, Scottish Socialist Alliance or Scot Nats.

Still, Lib Dems are probably to the left of New Labour and more libertarian (in the small 'l' sense, not the barking large 'L' sense).

And we can't even rely on Europe to protect us from this one as the European Parliament did something similar a few weeks back. Don't these eejits realise they're digging a pit for themselves, too?