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If you like being under 24/7 surveillance.

The British government is proposing a massive data store that can hold "'a billion incidents of data exchange a day' as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded. Under new proposals published yesterday, the information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office."

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/2037219

Date: 2008-08-19 01:06 am (UTC)
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Guh. Doctorow should be pushing Little Brother in England more than he is here - they've got the right society to really appreciate it.

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