[privacy] No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance

['Richard M. Smith']

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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