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The Big Brother state – by stealth
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- petercooper 18y agoThis article alludes to the point but doesn't quite get all the way there but.. there have been so many egregious data leaks from British agencies lately that it doesn't seem to matter whether data "sharing" between agencies is legal or not. They'll do it anyway when they want to - most likely using "anti-terrorism" as a defense. You do not have privacy in the UK. Your data is not safe in government hands. But.. we need to get used to it, because you aren't convincing them otherwise whether it's Labour or Conservative in power. If we need to get behind something, it should be proportional representation so that we can actually have an effect by voting for new parties to get us out of this mess.
- cabalamat 18y agoIf Britain does trash it's civil liberties, where would people consider emigrating to? A friend is considering Ireland...