UK Gov't Creating Secret Mega Database On Citizens Without Informing Parliament (theregister.co.uk) 70
Alexander J Martin, reporting for The Register: The Home Office is secretly creating a centralised database on the good folk of Britain without presenting the capability increases to the public or subjecting them to Parliamentary scrutiny. The Register can reveal the project, which was described as simply a "replatforming" of the department's aging IT infrastructure, has already begun to roll out, with the "first wave" of changes being delivered in what it is calling the Technology Platforms for Tomorrow (TPT) programme. TPT will lay the foundations for this mega database by ushering in "core infrastructure, compute platforms and Live Service capability" changes, primarily using Hadoop, the open source software framework for centralising databases and allowing batch queries and analyses to be run across them in bulk.
the Queen's subjects (Score:2)
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don't need to know.
But British citizens do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:the Queen's subjects (Score:5, Informative)
There's no such thing as a British citizen. The correct term is SUBJECT.
Nonsense.
I'm a British citizen, not a subject.
If you don't believe me, take a look at my passport and see what it says there.
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We are British citizens, but also subjects of the Queen. Personally I'd guillotine the lot of them.
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https://www.gov.uk/types-of-br... [www.gov.uk]
There are 6 different types of British nationality. These are:
British citizenship
British overseas territories citizen
British overseas citizen
British subject
British national (overseas)
British protected person
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-br... [www.gov.uk]
Until 1949, nearly everyone with a close connection to the United Kingdom was called a ‘British subject’.
All citizens of Commonwealth countries were British subjects until January 1983.
Since 1983, very few people have qualified as British subjects.
Who is a British subject
You became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if, until then, you were either:
a British subject without citizenship, which means you were a British subject on 31 December 1948 who didn’t become a citizen of the UK and Colonies, a Commonwealth country, Pakistan or the Republic of Ireland
a person who had been a citizen of the Republic of Ireland on 31 December 1948 and had made a claim to remain a British subject
You also became a British subject on 1 January 1983 if you were a woman who registered as a British subject on the basis of your marriage to a man in one of these categories.
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And also;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
On 1 January 1983, upon the coming into force of the British Nationality Act 1981, every citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies became either a British citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen or British Overseas citizen.
Use of the term British subject was discontinued for all persons who fell into these categories, or who had a national citizenship of any other Commonwealth country. /quote.
Second Amendment is the reason the US gov obeys (Score:1)
Personally I'd guillotine the lot of them.
How are you going to do that when apparently you can't even buy a butter knife without ID [activistpost.com]?
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That's not even the UK. You can tell by the fact that the prices are not in Pounds.
Re: the Queen's subjects (Score:2)
I think your confusing labels with content (eg I can put a sticker "clean diesel" on a car, but that doesn't suddenly make it clean!)
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There's no such thing as a British citizen. The correct term is SUBJECT.
That's actually a time saver. Normally in surveillance the term "SUBJECT" is used to denote the person being observed...
and the way it is now, everyone really is a "SUBJECT".
Of course, once they have some dirt on you then you get upgraded "SUSPECT".
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The Queen'd tell you to learn English, for a start.
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Oh really? Come on.. I'm a US citizen and I KNOW that's not true and hasn't been true for about 200 or so years.
Remember the US Revolutionary war was not fought in a vacuum, that the British where engaged in multiple conflicts before, during and after this war that drastically reduced the legal influence and standing of the monarchs. They are no longer absolute rulers, but more akin to figure heads, representatives of the state at official functions with very little actual legal control given parliament
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/... [dailywire.com]
Good folk? (Score:2)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
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5. Questioning, mentioning, or affording any opinion on the Faulkand Islands.
So you're looking for bad spellers? I'm pretty sure that anyone with any sort if opinion on the Falkland Islands also knows how to correctly spell the name.
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I take it Douglas Adams was under your watchful eye, then, given his subversive tendencies [h2g2.com] to educate people that you have basic facts backwards in your first point (the milk-first approach is done so as to avoid the scalding you get with the milk-second approach, though George Orwell made a separate case [booksatoz.com] for your preferred approach) and his advocacy for using both lemon and milk if one should so desire?
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6. Not cooking all of your food by boiling
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Sorry Janice works in accounts and she don't give a fuck! [imgur.com]
The UK, Providing Dystopian Visions Everywhere (Score:2)
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Does anyone know what temperature paper burns at?
911 degrees Fahrenheit
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I wonder if this is one of the costs of imperialism/multiculturalism. You import all manner of grievances, festering in segregated communities with which you have no informal ties through which you might do information gathering. All of a sudden, rather than dealing with the customary crimes you're dealing with invisible, existential threats from within your borders. You don't know how to build intelligence networks in the ghettos -- you don't know their customs, their tongues, their codes, and so whom you
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No. Your strange fantasies about "ghettos" have no bearing on the matter at all. Intelligence gathering the old fashioned way is becoming more and more rare because it's expensive and difficult to perform. It yields the best intelligence by far - like, actual real, useful intelligence, but it appears we've settled for less useful intelligence at a greater cost to society, but with a smaller budget for the departments footing the bill. Yay us?
THIS IS JUST WRONG! (Score:4, Informative)
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPY ON YOUR CITIZENS!
The way it is SUPPOSED to work is that all five eyes countries spy on each others' citizens, then share their data with each other.
So this should be America spying on UK citizens.
Or Australia.
Or New Zealand.
Or sorry, Canada.
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This data isn't gathered through spying, it's stuff that citizens have to give the government like tax information, voter registration, employment data, car ownership data...
It's just standard abuse of databases, with zero regard for privacy or safety. Just wait until it gets hacked.
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Isn't the the plot of Spectre? (Score:1)
That last Bond film?
Orwell's own country. (Score:1)
God snoop the Queen.
Shocked. I'M SHOCKED... (Score:2)
So, they ALREADY collect, have, keep, access this data, it's just that they have decided to use modern methods to better access it?
In other words, this is not a new problem, it's been going on for many years, they are just upgrading their IT?
I'm shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU!, this from a government that has CCTV and license plate readers on every single street corner everywhere in their country, and have for many years.
Re: Shocked. I'M SHOCKED... (Score:2)
Alex Jones is that you?
I'm surprised.... (Score:1)
I'm surprised they don't already have something like this in place honestly.
Can't the NSA already do something similar over here in the US or is it much more disorganized? Either way, the future is getting pretty scary to think about. I hate to think about what my kids are going to have to put up with in their 30's if tech continues to advance at the current pace. 1984 wasn't supposed to be an operations manual. It was supposed to be a warning.
Initially Misread as "Manga" Database (Score:4, Funny)
The story would have been a lot more interesting.
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Son of NHS [theguardian.com].
Crazy culture (Score:3)