Big Brother

by Matt Wardman | 25 Aug 2009 | No Comments

Do you remember Information Sharing Orders, to allow Ministers to override the Data Protection Act by fiat, smuggled into the “Coroners and Criminal Justice Bill” at the end of last year.

Well, Plan B to circumvent the Data Protection Act may have surfaced: rather than sharing data we will all have an “Integrated Citizen Record”.

by Chris | 1 Aug 2009 | No Comments

The appearance of ID cards has been finalised – and they will not feature the Union Flag because it “may upset members of the nationalist …

by Chris | 26 Mar 2009 | No Comments

No, we don’t live in a Big Brother state at all. How could we ever get such an idea?!

by Chris | 22 Nov 2008 | No Comments

First we have to pay for the privilege let the government hold all of our personal details in one giant database and give us a …

by Chris | 5 Nov 2008 | No Comments

The Lords are our saving grace, yet again. This undemocratic but venerable institution is doing its level best to save us from the authoritarian tendencies …

by Chris | 5 Nov 2008 | No Comments

This morning, all 646 MPs in the House of Commons will be receiving their copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with a similar message as …

by Chris | 30 Oct 2008 | No Comments

Two days ago, there were 12 MPs yet to be nabbed for the “1984 aint an instruction manual” campaign to send a copy of George …

by Chris | 28 Oct 2008 | No Comments

There are twelve MPs yet to be allocated a Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I signed up over a week ago to this plan to send a copy of …

by Chris | 20 Oct 2008 | No Comments

It is obvious that one area can only hold so many people, but this is an impossible thing to keep to:

This Government isn’t going to …

by Chris | 20 Oct 2008 | No Comments

Even though our government appears to think that it is, with this being only the latest of a long list of Big Brother policies:

Everyone who …