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| Written by Over the Garden Wall | |
No longer personal informationPersonal information containing details of every aspect of an individual's life will be available to 400,000 Whitehall civil servants and council workers if proposed plans go ahead.
Lord Falconer has ordered privacy laws to be watered down to allow the plans to be forced through. Yet another move by this information crazy government to keep tabs on the population. The plans would allow anyone working for a public body to monitor everything from an individual's driving licence record to whether they had paid their council tax on time. Data protection laws - which are supposed to safeguard individuals' rights to information held about them - will be changed to force the moves through. Welcome to Blair’s Big Brother world but I suppose that Blair’s supporters will say that it is necessary to maintain an orderly society, but isn’t that what George Orwell wrote in the first place? |
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