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...and no doubt ID cards at a later stage. Of course
it's all to keep us safe from the 'terrorists'. Sure
it is, but who keeps us safe from the Government?
David Leppard
October 19, 2008
timesonline.co.uk
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced
to register their identity on a national database under
government plans to extend massively the powers of state
surveillance.
Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other
official form of identification at the point of purchase.
Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government
move to create a surveillance society.
A compulsory national register for the owners of all
72m mobile phones in Britain would be part of a much
bigger database to combat terrorism and crime. Whitehall
officials have raised the idea of a register containing
the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone
in recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies,
insiders say.
The rest of the article is here: timesonline.co.uk
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