Sleepwalking — The Plan for a Super Database.
May 20, 2008
I always tremble with eye-popping rage when I hear talk of ID cards and databases. You quite possibly already know that. But it is especially true when I read about the subject and see it stated that, apparently, the public is “sleepwalking into a surveillance society”. The semi-conscious horde, it seems, is letting it happen.
Aww, shucks, and there was I, eyes wide open, very much awake, thinking that the government was the bad guy in all this.
While a good number of us shout very loudly that such moves are unacceptable, the zombie-like proles are, if such statements are to be taken at face-vaule, giving it their silent approval.
What a nasty (and highly transparent) piece of obfuscation.
May 20, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Think ya free?
Fear and loathing in Britain
Both those blog posts I did because I hate the ID system with ultimate passion!
May 21, 2008 at 8:46 am
Cheers, Will! I’ll take another look (sure I must have read them already.)
I find it all so frustrating. I hear security experts uttering the “sleepwalking” phrase and telling us these databases need better security, and it’s so obvious that they’re not really opposed in principle, they just want the bleeding job of making them secure.
And government (I use the term advisedly!) seems so removed from public opinion on the issue, or so it seems to me, that I, a normally far from paranoid guy, start seeing truly nefarious schemes and conspiracies at ever turn!
May 22, 2008 at 2:33 am
Not that I have any influence, Gary but I blogged about how I wanted everyone to NOT vote Labour after snagging that link off you.
Hope you don’t mind.
May 22, 2008 at 2:33 am
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May 22, 2008 at 10:03 am
Don’t mind in the least, Will. That’s what this here blogging thing is all about
June 17, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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