MontanaHatchet said:
Bahh, this is the one thing that annoys me about the British. They always love to complain about things that Americans have to deal with in a much larger mass and at a far greater extremity.
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How do you mean? If you mean that the UK has a liberal government, you'd be wrong.
- All websites visitied, emails sent, text messages sent, phone calls made are all stored for a year (not contents, time, date, who-to and how long (if phone call))
- The Government has a database which contains all addresses lived at, all cars owned, and they have access to a person's purchases when tracked (through a credit card, for example). The government also has information on all medication taken.
- The government were recently debating whether the police can keep a person for 45 days without evidence if they are suspect of being a terrorist.
- The government is expressing a huge interest in ID-Cards, to prove that you are a British-citizen, basically another measure of keeping an eye on you.
- There have also been talks of the Government keeping a huge national database containing every citizen's DNA, finger-prints, etc.
- The average British citizen is captured on CCTV hundreds of times a day.
- If you've ever commited any felony, no matter how big or small, it will be kept on the PNC for one hundred years.
If the US has it worse than that, then I'm all ears.
