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Old 02-09-2009, 03:45 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger View Post
It was more likely started because the UK goverment has announced that it's about to hugely increase the amount of CCTV coverage despite the UK having more CCTV cameras than any country in Europe. There is a reveiw of this going on in the house of lords on this subject as well as DNA databasing. Pick up any UK newspaper & this subject will be discussed in it.

I know this forum is American-centric but just because it isn't a problem in the US doesn't mean it's not worthy of a thread.
Exactly. As urban has stated we have more CCTV than anywhere else in Europe yet it hasn't made a lot of difference. i live 10 minutes away from GCHQ which is the central communication centre for the whole of Britain and it's well known what they get up to.

If any keywords are mentioned in phone calls or texts, then they are immediatedly logged but otherwise your calls are not actually listened in on.
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