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


From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:53:43 +0100 (BST)

Didn't work though, did it.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:

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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