More reasons for Eugen to stay away
Will Morton
macavity at well.com
Sun Oct 19 03:25:03 PDT 2008
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their
identity on a national database under government plans to extend
massively the powers of state surveillance.
Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form
of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear
it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society.
A compulsory national register for the owners of all 72m mobile phones
in Britain would be part of a much bigger database to combat terrorism
and crime. Whitehall officials have raised the idea of a register
containing the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone in
recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies, insiders
say.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece
Only being suggested at this time, but even the fact that it's being
suggested...
W
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