Who cares about private life any more?
Independent [UK]
by Simon Carr
02/25/08
It’s interesting that the Government has joined the struggle against a national DNA database. It won’t help. We’ve had it. The discourse, as they call it in intellectual circles, is against us. On our side, the side against these databases, we don’t have any British principles any more. We have arguments (efficiency, security, feasibility), but the axioms of private life are more or less gone in this country. Maybe the European Court will come down for the principle of privacy, but our national mentality will still be spilling out surveillance initiatives, monitoring programmes, enforcement strategies...
http://tinyurl.com/2y64j7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DNA+database
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
by Simon Carr
02/25/08
It’s interesting that the Government has joined the struggle against a national DNA database. It won’t help. We’ve had it. The discourse, as they call it in intellectual circles, is against us. On our side, the side against these databases, we don’t have any British principles any more. We have arguments (efficiency, security, feasibility), but the axioms of private life are more or less gone in this country. Maybe the European Court will come down for the principle of privacy, but our national mentality will still be spilling out surveillance initiatives, monitoring programmes, enforcement strategies...
http://tinyurl.com/2y64j7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DNA+database
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
rudkla - 25. Feb, 11:24
