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Originally Posted by Eric
C'mon ... that's not the point ... it's too much like ditching the presumption of innocence. Sure, there are those out there planning terrorist attacks. But why waste time and resources monitoring the probably innocent, while the bad guys go ahead with their plans. What could be done, in all countries in danger of attacks from Islamic militants, is to target dodgey Islamist organizations. Forget the PC garbage, and monitor likely sources of problems. I don't see many problems emmanating from radical C of E adherents or Conservative riding assosciations.
And, shouldn't that be "nowt"   |
If they are able to monitor everyone then no individual group could argue they were being targeted.
Those with someone to hide would just find another way to communicate.
I think email encryption would start to become a lot more common as well.