Plans condemned as the greatest threat to civil rights for decades
Sweeping new powers allowing personal information about every citizen to be handed over to government agencies have been condemned amid warnings that Britain is experiencing the greatest threats to civil rights for decades. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the pressure group Liberty, warned that the laws, were among a string of measures that amounted to a "terrifying" assault on traditional freedoms.
Read article in The Independent (UK)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Big Brother database a 'terrifying' assault on traditional freedoms
Posted by Willow at 5:04 pm
Labels: Big Brother database, civil rights, Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, The Independent
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