Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Hence the reason the founders of the US, Englishmen all until the
Declaration of Independence, felt the need to explicitly declare the
rights of man, and limit those of government.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Peter Evans
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:55 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:08:37AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece
> > This is perhaps the craziest f'ing thing I have ever heard of...
>
>       1984
>
>       Because this is British Government, you're lucky it's only a
> quarter of
>       a century late.
>
>       Not quite up to "Brazil" yet.
>
>
>       P
>
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