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Post by Bea on Oct 19, 2008 19:17:57 GMT
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Post by markforskitt on Oct 19, 2008 19:47:12 GMT
It's as stupid, impractical and downright illiberal a proposal as Kinnard signing indefinite police detention, or Le Marquand wanting to take political control of the police. Just think about it. First, you don't have a right to have a passport. Even then a half competent terrorist or fraudster would use a decent fake/foreign one that isn't going to be spotted by your average Spar Saturday job youth assistant. And how far will it go - shooting all pigeons in case they are trained homing birds carrying messages? Recording all stamp sales in case people are sending messages in the mail? Oh and don't forget those franking machines we have in the offices -they will have to go too. What about empty bottles, just in case someone puts an encoded message in one and throws it over the sea wall at la Collette. Its all far too 1984 for comfort. |
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Post by crappogre on Oct 19, 2008 19:52:21 GMT
Stupid idea.
What happens when people flog a mobile in the pub, pass an old one on to a friend, buy one on eBay etc. ?!
The database wouldn't have a hope of being accurate.
Total waste of time!
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Post by Bea on Oct 19, 2008 19:58:15 GMT
"As The Sunday Times revealed earlier this month, GCHQ has already been provided with up to £1 billion to work on the pilot stage of the Big Brother database, which will see thousands of “black boxes” installed on communications lines provided by Vodafone and BT as part of a pilot interception programme."
Just higlighted the above from the article ,as seems like a lot of money is being spend working on this Big Brother data base .
Now can any one fill me in ,as to whether we have a GCHQ of sorts here, or is the "National Security" work designated to the mainland .
Who does the BB work for us in Jersey?
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Post by crappogre on Oct 22, 2008 8:54:38 GMT
Because it means that 'they' (Big Brother) can tell where you are at all times (if you always have your phone with you) even if it's switched 'off'. You'd have to take the battery out if you really want to be untraced.
Why should 'they' have that information? It's not normally a problem I'd admit, but we all know that data gets lost (lappies lost on trains or stolen) and powers get abused. 'They' are only human, and open to corruption in a whole range of ways. I suspect many bloggers wouldn't be too happy if there was a Google employee open to bribes to reveal sign-up email addresses and IP numbers, for example.
When some b'std knows the right person who will reveal all the movements of some unwitting enemy, things get a bit unfair, dontcha think?
There's simply no need for it to be compulsory - like ID cards - you really have to question the true motives behind calls for such moves.
Power. Corruptible power.
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