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[privacy] No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
From: "'Richard M. Smith'" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:44:52 -0500
No Passport <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/03/10/1846241.shtml> For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, @04:43PM from the and-you-thought-Sweden-was-bad dept. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=158> Privacy UpnAtom <http://www.waronfreedom.net/> writes "People who refuse to give up their bank <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6370627.stm> records, tax <http://www.bristol-no2id.org.uk/blog/?page_id=5> records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of <http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece> their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to - will be denied <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id =441329&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow> passports from March <http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?t=14792> 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the <http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1993055,00.html> everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the <http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-545269
most spied upon nation in Western Europe - more so even
<http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/03/09/1823255.shtml?tid=158> than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."
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