No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance 790
UpnAtom writes "People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to — will be denied passports from March 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe — more so even than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."
What could they be looking for? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And like Americans and frogs (Score:5, Funny)
Look, I don't know where you get your french stereotypes, but I've never heard of one sitting in a tub of hot water.
Car Movements? (Score:1, Funny)
What, you're supposed to keep track every time you shit in your car over there?
How insane is that?
Note to Brits (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is it a time... (Score:3, Funny)
you are hereby charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
However we at the Anti-Terrorist Department (Motto: "remember, if they're not for you they're against you") had a good laugh at your suggestion of using a train as the delivery method, as it would probably end up derailed on a set of poorly-maintained points in the wrong kind of snow, hence foiling your devious plan. So we'll be letting you off with a warning this time, son.
(Tip from Constable Noggins: "next time think about barrels", he says).
Re:Car Movements? (Score:1, Funny)
April 1, 1998 - stuck in traffic
April 4, 1998 - traffic, again
April 10, 1998 - hallucinated being in the toilet
April 11, 1998 - hallucinated being stuck in traffic
January 17, 2003 - flashback of hallucination of being stuck in traffic
March 3, 2003 - paid 100gbp to do it for a reality TV show
March 4, 2003 - recreated March 3 incident for the local news
April 15, 2005 - slept in car, woke up with warm pants
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
To the US of A (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't like it? Leave! Germany wants terrorists! (Score:2, Funny)
You do realize you're one of us, right?
"the Americans", "their southern border"...
Or are you also one of those people who refers to themselves in the 3rd person?