>
> Of course most people won't bother and the gov will be very successful
> in helping husbands and wives find out if their other halves are
> cheating on them. Anyone doing anything seriously illegal will work
> around the problem as they already do.
>
> Result: Everyone loses their freedom for very little benefit.
>
> I wonder if saying this on a public mailing list makes me a
> subversive? Probably not, but who knows who is reading this..?
>
> R
>
Apparently
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090109/tuk-new-email-law-attack-on-privacy-dba1618.html
"People have to worry about the scale, the virtuality of your life being
exposed to round about 500 public authorities.
"Under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, privacy is
a fundamental right... it is important to protect the principle of
privacy because once you've lost it it's very difficult to recover."
The Home Office said the data would be useful for combating crime."
If thats the case, then the Home Office must be assuming that we are all
going to be up-to-no-good, a bit like the Tom Cruise fim "Minority
Report". I for one dont like the idea of having someone snooping on me
to see if I MAY be up to something. But then with the advent of cctv we
seem to be on camera approx 300 times a day.
I, for one, would rather see more bobbies on the streets, being seen,
and the kids of today begin taught how to behave. Common Sense is losing
its battle to the PC Brigade.
