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[tuftedduck]

Roseway,.................I think they want to be alone   

[roseway]

Are you talking about the dogs or their owners?

[scottiesmum]

Ooooo  la la  !  I'm note sure Blue and Scotty should be seen kissing           

[tuftedduck]

Ooooo  la la  !  I'm note sure Blue and Scotty should be seen kissing           

It's better than what dogs usually do when they greet each other   

[UncleUB]

Tufted 

[tuftedduck]

Tufted 

I'm sorry to be so forthright, unkyUb, but sometimes the brutal hard facts have to be said. 

[dave.m]

I was thinking of locking this thread as it appears, at first glance to have been hijacked:

From Oldfogeys' original post:

Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK.

A Home Office spokesman said the data is a "crucial tool"

Upon closer reading I now realise that the Government database of information has got you by the 'short and curlies' (or 'crucial tool' as they call it), and the way a dog collects information for it's own database of people is by having a good snort around the same area of ones anatomy that the government is grasping, so the posts are connected and no hijacking has taken place.

dave
 

[oldfogy]

Apart from the odd four legged fiends that crept in "briefly" I thought both topics were almost similar in relevance.

That being how ludicrously the big brother tactics are trying to be.

[dave.m]

You're up late, Phil.
Can't you sleep either? 
dave

[oldfogy]

This is not late for me, usually 04:00 before I go to bed.

Just watching reading about that is.....

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[scottiesmum]

I was thinking of locking this thread as it appears, at first glance to have been hijacked

Hijacked   !!!!!           Moi !!!!!!       

[Floydoid]

I see the Daily Mail are getting a bit shirty about it all (and quite rightly so):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035361/Big-Brother-database-recording-calls-texts-e-mails-ruin-British-way-life.html

The privacy watchdog, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, warned that the public’s traditional freedoms were under grave threat from creeping state surveillance.

Apart from the Government’s inability to hold data securely, he said the proposals raised ‘grave questions’.

‘Do the risks we face provide justification for such a scheme in the first place? Do we want the state to have details of more and more aspects of our private lives?

‘Whatever the benefits, would such a scheme amount to excessive surveillance? Would this be a step too far for the British way of life?’

It is thought the scheme would allow the police or MI5 to access the exact time when a phone call was made, the number dialled, the length of the call and, in the case of mobile phones, the location of the handset to within an accuracy of a few hundred yards.

Similarly for e-mails, it would provide details of when they were sent and who the recipients were. Police recovering a suspect’s computer would then be able to trawl through hard-drive records and recover particular messages. The content of telephone calls could not be recovered unless they were being intercepted at the time.

Mr Thomas’s warnings were backed by privacy campaigners, who claimed such Big Brother powers would give Government agencies unprecedented abilities to trawl through intimate details of ordinary people’s private lives at will.

[scottiesmum]

I understand  that it is not now just under consideration,   the new Data Communications Bill is set to be put forward in November's Queen's Speech.; it's startling the measures the present administration appear to get away with purely with scare tactics ... IMO.   

[Accordion]

Only just seen this. I hope it's a non-starter because it is seriously flawed and like taking a sledge hammer to crack a walnut.