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Privacy and Surveillance
Government plans to record all your phone calls, texts and emails on a database are under discussion.
They say it might help prevent another 7/7 type terrorist attack.
If you have nothing to hide, then it is a price worth paying to stop future atrocities and terrorist attacks?
Or is our privacy more important?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/pol itics/lawandorder/2302375/%27Big-Brother%27-da tabase-of-all-phone-calls-and-emails-condemned -by-watchdog.html
They say it might help prevent another 7/7 type terrorist attack.
If you have nothing to hide, then it is a price worth paying to stop future atrocities and terrorist attacks?
Or is our privacy more important?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/pol itics/lawandorder/2302375/%27Big-Brother%27-da tabase-of-all-phone-calls-and-emails-condemned -by-watchdog.html
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.All of this isn't a million miles away from what Hitler was trying to do.
Can I see the day that simply by mentioning the words bomb, schoolgirl, terrorist, knife, murder, BNP, incest, drugs, in an email/phone call that the authorities could come knocking to 'check you out'? You bet.
The way things are going we will have surgical implants put into our brains, so that any thought of wrong doing will be stamped down on by a spell inside.
Can I see the day that simply by mentioning the words bomb, schoolgirl, terrorist, knife, murder, BNP, incest, drugs, in an email/phone call that the authorities could come knocking to 'check you out'? You bet.
The way things are going we will have surgical implants put into our brains, so that any thought of wrong doing will be stamped down on by a spell inside.
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