Monday, 27 April 2009

Like I said, they have no idea what they are playing at

Following the article on the BBC that I mentioned earlier, comes this from The Metro:

Ministers have backed down over plans for a centralised database of email, telephone and internet data. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said there were "absolutely no plans for a single central store" of communications data...

6 comments:

Snafu said...

"there are palns for multiple stores instead"!?!

charcoal said...

they fear us - that's the issue.

Mr Splodge said...

As has been said ~ the same data will be collected nd stored, just not in the same place for now. The state can, at its leasure, and in more politically expedient times, simply gather this data together in a single database.

All this announcement does is shift the costs onto the ISP's. It does nothing to improve civil liberties.

Dr Evil said...

Saving money? Or are these bastards now listening?

John Pickworth said...

And when its stored, just how much casual access will the Police have? Won't be long before they're insisting they have a direct feed to the ISP's stored data.

So no scary big government database... just lots of privately financed (via hugely increased broadband changes) and largely unaccountable databases which the Feds can peep at their leisure.

No one can pretend we have a free society now. Welcome to 1984!

AntiCitizenOne said...

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