[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Livia

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. It's not as if the government are compiling piles of information purely to snoop on ordinary people with ordinary lives. Anyone with a supermarket loyalty card has information stored and passed on about them - what newspaper you buy, how much you spend... it's all amalgamated by companies like Experian who, from the information gleaned, can take a pretty good guess at which way you vote, for instance, and this information is for sale under the trade name Mosac. I don't see anyone cutting up their loyalty cards though. Also, we're less vigilant about our own personal information than ever with half the country sharing personal info, photos etc. social networks.

We might want to live in a country where personal information is totally personal and no information is collated about anyone. But then we'd see how many terrorists incidents are stopped every year because all those incidents would go ahead and there'd be carnage. Then there'd be a thread on how the security services aren't doing enough. It's not possible to have it all ways.

I agree Livia. I have come to the conclusion after much thought, that I as I am already in favour (as I stated controversially on another thread) of I.D. Cards and Fingerprints and D.N.A. being collected at birth and upon immigration into this country, so it seems ridiculous of me to worry about whether someone somewhere knows which porn channel I'm watching ( JOKE!!!)

No, I agree.

(God, I'm glad I'm not married to you in one way, because I'd end up as a right toadying, obsequious little worm )