Private company to run government database

Plans could go out to tender

31 December 2008 10:15 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

A private company could run the government's controversial billion pound database, the BBC reports.

The management of the database, that is to contain details of everybody in the UK's telephone calls, emails and internet use, could go out for tender, according to a consultation paper to be published next month.

The database, which could cost up to £12 billion to create, is highly controversial with many privacy groups and experts speaking out against the plans.

A Home Office spokesman said: "The communications revolution has been rapid in this country and the way in which we collect communications data needs to change so that law enforcement agencies can maintain their ability to tackle serious crime and terrorism".

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  • Britain is now a communist state, not that it wasnt before with this one party dictatorship that we have. what you talking about i hear you cry! well when both parties have been saying and doing the same things for over 50 years and when both parties continue to borrow money from these parasitic private central bankers who have the cheek to call themselves the bank of england, then that's a one party dictatorship. you would half expect it from a leftist government but not from a so-called conservative government. When they continue to plunge every person in this country into debt to these off shore bankers who take the interest we pay to them and buy up our nations assets that's not only disgusting but i'd say that it's high treason too. Former bank of england governer Josiah Stamp once said this "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.” wise up people and write letters to your mps and demand they abolish this parasitic central banking cartel NOW. or continue on with the denial which is what they want! Posted by simon lomax, united kingdom
  • id like to know more about this private company that might run this database and how can you join this company im very intrested in this industry because im looking on the intrenet and everywhere else to look for information and the free sites to look at your own records no matter how old you are won't give the information and id like to know why and even the sites to see if im even in the database it seems as if there hiding something from me and id like to know why and know what im doing Posted by Tiffany smith, unitedstaes

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