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Sunday, 8 February 2009

Another Labour surveillance database

I learn that our surveillance database obsessed Labour government are now compiling a database to track and store for 10 years the international travel records of millions of Britons. The database will store the names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details of travellers.

Isn't that brilliant a government database with my credit card details and address details on it just ready for the data to be lost and to fall into the hands of the unscrupulous. A database with my travel records on it that might establish likely patterns of holidaying so that a dishonest civil servant could extract such information and pass it onto burglars who would be happy to pay for such information.


I assume that this Labour government will claim that the database is essential in the fight against crime, terrorism and illegal immigration. I also assume that they are lying about this as they are about most everything else that they tell us.

This Labour government seem to think that they can justify almost any restriction of personal freedom in the name of "fighting terrorism"; meanwhile suspected terrorists are allowed to live in the community because of fear of infringing their human rights by expelling them and preachers of hate can spout their poison because of the fear of inflaming race relations by arresting them.


The Labour government have destroyed the economy of this economy, that is becoming very clear; they have also almost destroyed the very fabric of society, that will become clearer soon.

1 comment:

John M Ward said...

Interesting! I was not aware of this particular database proposal.

As you rightly indicate, the "anti-terror" etc justification is just an excuse, and we already know that any such legislation is in reality used for other purposes.

We desperately need a change of Government now, before these things are put in place and become not only difficult to remove, but we couldn't be sure that the data ends up secretly archived somewhere "just in case"…