Cindy or Michelle ?

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SamuelRSmith said:

 

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.

 

The USA locks people up on foreign soil for years, tortures them and when they finally do charge them they do it in courts run by the military. Their infringement of freedoms is worse than the British, at least the Brits generally have to comply with Habeas Corpus, the Americans seem to discard it entirely whenever somebody is 'suspicious'.