The Independent reports:
Ministers cancel 'Big Brother' database
Plan to store details of every phone call and email 'kicked into long grass' after furore
The Telegraph reports:
State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search
Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
The headlines appear to be telling different stories, however, they merge in the stories when it comes to a delay in legislating to bring in this Big Brother power.
I thought that the public is the master and the government the servant? Here we have the servant's desire to spy on the master, and the so-called justification is weaker than a wet teabag. Moreover, to protect the public the government is intent on stripping away any right to privacy. This is clearly a violation. To add insult to injury, the government intends taxing the public to the tune of £2billion which it will pay to the private sector to spy on the public.
Oops...how The Telegraph got it wrong
