This government disgusts me.......
They "claim" its for our own safety, (to combat terrorism, fraud, drug trafficking, whatever it may be)
What they really mean is so they can have a shed load of information on all of us to keep tabs on us.
And why the hell should we trust them?
this is the same government that trusted some bloke in a van to deliver 8000 passports or something, only a week ago and we can all remember when several discs were lost contain very personal and/or private information because the responsible department sent them via Royal mail.
MI5/6 cant even keep hold of their own bloody information, they keep leaving laptops around (in london!!) how the hell can they be trusted with our personal information?
The real terrorists will have people that will tell them to put up a proxy and route it to another country to avoid the monitoring, or however you need to do it. So we are takign a massive infringement on our civil liberties just to make it harder for the national security services to catch the people they already cant catch!
At any point are we allowed to vote for someone with a degree of intelligence? If so please wake me up when that person gets into power.