Incompatible with a free country
Is there nothing this government won't do? From a BBC report:
Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls, numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by telecoms companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement.
Okay I'm already pretty shocked. When did it become okay for telco's to store all this information?
Worse yet we're now going to turn this over to the government? A government that has shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with our information.
I'm with Chris Huhne:
"Ministers claim the database will only be used in terrorist cases, but there is now a long list of cases, from the arrest of Walter Wolfgang for heckling at a Labour conference to the freezing of Icelandic assets, where anti-terrorism law has been used for purposes for which it was not intended."
"Our experience of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act suggests these powers will soon be used to spy on people's children, pets and bins.
"These proposals are incompatible with a free country and a free people."
These proposals are incompatible with a free country and a free people.
I agree that it's important to protect lives but find another way.