Friday, 23 December 2005

Big brother and your number plates

The UK has decided to keep records of virtually all vehicle movements in the country and retain the data for at least two years.

Steven Taylor, who pointed out the story, notes a transatlantic difference in attitudes:

Certainly, this underscores a key difference between European and American sensibilities: we are currently having a major debate over whether the NSA should ever listen in on the domestic end of an international phone call with a suspected al Qaeda operative, and the British are to keep records of where everyone is driving.

Of course, the NSA surveillance (which, admittedly, I have serious qualms about—indeed, even the FISA warrant process seems suspect, even though there is serious selection bias that plagues simplistic analysis of its statistics) is almost certainly considered by Europeans, including Britons, as yet more evidence of Bushitlerism.

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The fact that you an I have a friend who is probably doing this as part of his job doesn’t make you a TINY bit queasy?

 

It would if I spoke Turkmen or Uzbek…

 

ahhh….so only if it affects YOU.

You are one screwed up bastard….don’t you know the world revolves around ME!

 
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