However, she failed to mention that substantial additional sums — amounting to more than £1 billion over three years — had already been allocated to GCHQ for its MTI programme.Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said Smith’s announcement appeared to be a “smokescreen”.“We opposed the big brother database because it gave the state direct access to everybody’s communications. But this network of black boxes achieves the same thing via the back door,” Chakrabarti said.
Hmm, seems the government is willing to waste money on spying on the people when in economic times like these they should be looking to help the people. It just shows that we can't really trust our politicians and government anymore .
Quote from: Imagine. on May 05, 2009, 08:45:44 PMHmm, seems the government is willing to waste money on spying on the people when in economic times like these they should be looking to help the people. It just shows that we can't really trust our politicians and government anymore .Could we ever?