I heard UK government even changed their minds on putting CCTV cameras into citizens bedrooms and might even dismantle some that are already put in some places, because some of the cameras actually are obscuring the field of view of the others. UK is becoming a really nice play to live in now!
We have the most CCTV in Europe now. It was touted as the "new crime solution" of the 1990's.
While I don't trust the tories with the nhs and public spending, at least they get some things right.
We will scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity register and the ContactPoint database, and halt the next generation of biometric passports.
We will outlaw the fingerprinting of children at school without parental permission.
We will adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database.
We will review libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
We will further regulate CCTV.
We will end the storage of internet and e-mail records without good reason.
We will create a level playing field for open-source software and will enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller components.
We will create a new "right to data" so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis.
We will introduce measures to ensure the rapid roll-out of superfast broadband across the country. We will ensure that BT and other infrastructure providers allow the use of their assets to deliver such broadband, and we will seek to introduce superfast broadband in remote areas at the same time as in more populated areas. If necessary, we will consider using the part of the TV license fee that is supporting the digital switchover to fund broadband in areas that the market alone will not reach.
The most important point being the last one obv
.
Still I think proprep would be better, i'd rather trade some of the sensible things above for not quite wrecking public spending.
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