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UK: Information Commissioner Press release: A communications database would be ‘a step too far’

01 July 2008

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"Any government run database holding the telephone and internet communications of the entire population would raise serious data protection concerns, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, is warning today. Commenting on speculation that the government is considering the development of such a database Richard Thomas will say that it would be ‘a step too far for the British way of life’."

Database threatens our way of life, watchdog warns (Guardian, link)

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