The government plans to retain all travel data for everyone entering and leaving the country in a centralised database for 10 years, and is in the process of updating a centre near Manchester to process the data, the Home Office said on Monday.
"Our hi-tech electronic borders system will allow us to count all passengers in and out of the UK and targets those who aren't willing to play by our rules," said UK border and immigration minister Phil Woolas in a statement.Personally I don't see the problem - there are so many ways for people to follow where you are nowadays, especially online that most people could find me in a heartbeat...
Between Facebook, twitter, blogs, comments etc, people could suss out pretty fast where I am going to be...
I know that the civil liberties people will be jumping up and down on this idea but is it really so bad - why is there always so much to hide....?
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