Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has said the government is prepared to go “quite a long way” with civil liberties to “stop terrorists killing people”.He was responding to criticism of plans for a database of mobile and web records, saying it was needed because terrorists used such communications.By not monitoring this traffic, it would be “giving a licence to terrorists to kill people”, he said.Lib Dem MP Julia Goldsworthy queried how far it would undermine freedom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7674775.stmuk: Big Brother database threatens to ‘break the back of freedom’
Government plans to build a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales warned of the dangers posed by a “Big Brother” security state.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/big-brother-database-threatens-to-break-the-back-of-freedom-967673.html
uk: Hoon defends giant database plans
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has said the government is prepared to go “quite a long way” with civil liberties to “stop terrorists killing people”. He was responding to criticism of plans for a database of mobile and web records, saying it was needed because terrorists used such communications.