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