[privacy] UK: Whitehall Moves to Create 'Super-Database'

[Drsolly]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> >>The UK Gov seems to be fascinated with the idea of huge databases on
> computers, much the same way a rabbit is fascinated by a stoat.  
> 
> I'm sure I'm not the only non-Brit asking myself "WTF is a stoat?"
 
Carinvorous mammal, like to eat rabbits. Rabbits can act like they're 
mesmerised by the stoat (this might, of course, be a folk story, but if 
it is, it's a very well known folk story). The rabit stands, watching the 
staot, where it should run like hell. The stoat kills and eats the rabbit.