Database, Database, Whereforartthou Database?
Yet another database is wanted. As the always excellent Mr Eugenides says:
Really, what are we to make of this?
- A national ID database
- A national DNA database
- A national children’s database (complete with extra-secure VIP area for Romeo and Brooklyn)
- A national vehicle journey database (linked in to numberplate recognition technology to provide a total record of every car journey in the country)
- And now a national phone, email and text message database, detailing every private communication you have made over the last 12 months.
No doubt I’ve forgotten a few, too. Wouldn’t it just be simpler and swifter to combine all these into one big super-database? Why not? I trust them. Don’t you?
Can we move back to the principles of civil liberties, freedoms like speech and movement, and personal privacy now please? Please? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
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