Just what is it with the Brits and their big brother practices anyway? In addition to their government trying to fingerprint everyone who lives in the country and sending people and families to respect camps if they, in the opinion of the state, exhibit anti-social behaviour, their airport authority now wants to fingerprint and photograph everybody going through the bloody airport.
Browsing Privacy & Civil Rights™
Just In Case They Commit Future Crimes?
Subtitled: DNA is your friend - especially if you’re an authoritarian government
God bless Her Majesties Benevolent Government tm ‘eh…. always looking to protect her loyal subjects, even if it’s at the expense of the privacy of future loyal subjects who may, or may not, ever commit a crime [let alone a violent one] in their entire lives but who will end up in the policeman’s database anyway.
Words Fail Me
An article in the on-line version of the National Post discusses an Angus Reid poll that says, among other things, that 63% of Canadians believe that “the need for safety trumps individual privacy rights“.
How Do We Weed Out The Wackos?
California Justice H. Walter Croskey recently said that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children” - now I’m not American but there’s one part of me that says he’s full of shite and parents should have the right to educate their own children if they so wish, then I think about the Jesus Camp freaks and other assorted wackos…….
If You’ve Nothing To Hide?
In a special report to Parliament, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the Mounties broke the law and their own policy by unnecessarily squirrelling away files or keeping them longer than they should in what are known as “exempt” information banks. “What we found when we took a close look at the RCMP’s exempt data banks is disturbing and important to Canadians,” Stoddart told a news conference yesterday.
Picture, Picture In The Cab
Once again, under the guise of “keeping us safe“, government steps in and infringes upon privacy.
More Reasons To Limit Their Abuse
Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed police because of “firearms related intelligence”.
Then They Need To Prove It
Canadian officials are taking the unprecedented step of asking a judge to install closed-circuit video cameras inside a terrorism suspect’s family home, arguing national security necessitates the scrutiny.
These Shoes Don’t Fit
Anti-democratic, Orwellian and hypocritical are some of the descriptors that suit Prime Minister Harper’s latest move to try to control his message to the Canadian people. In a plan apparently called the “Shoe Store Project”, so named for the location of a former shoe shop that will soon be the new place where Harper plans […]
Mayor To Citizens
Suck it up!! We’re gonna surveil your asses and you’re gonna like it.
No, It’s Not Religious Profiling
It can’t be, because there are checks and balances.
Smile, no Pout, no Grimace
I wonder what kinds of facial expressions are deemed unacceptable? Which mug should I fear in the line-up?
Not Progressive Very Bad Ideas
Progressive Blogger DivaRachel has a post up about the Government of Australia trying to improve the lives of Aboriginal Australians by making it against the law for them to drink, or possess porn, and subjecting children to mandatory medical exams, in addition to…..
“a very different Agency”
“a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency”
Watched (Again)
Via Futurismic we find that the UK has once again come up with a new and unique way of keeping track of their citizens.
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