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BBC news, 17-10-2008
Wired, 7-10-2008
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has said the government is prepared to go “quite a long way” with civil liberties to “stop terrorists killing people”.
He was responding to criticism of plans for a database of mobile and web records, saying it was needed because terrorists used such communications. “Automated identification of terrorists through data mining (or any other known methodology) is neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts,” the report found. “Even in well-managed programs, such tools are likely to return significant rates of false positives, especially if the tools are highly automated.”
He was responding to criticism of plans for a database of mobile and web records, saying it was needed because terrorists used such communications. “Automated identification of terrorists through data mining (or any other known methodology) is neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts,” the report found. “Even in well-managed programs, such tools are likely to return significant rates of false positives, especially if the tools are highly automated.”
In Amerika constateren ze dat de uitspraak “als je zoekt naar een naald in een hooiberg, is het niet slim om de hooiberg te vergroten” steek houdt. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk accepteert de regering dat nog niet.
Maar een vertrekkende hoge ambtenaar gooit op het eiland toch ook de knuppel in het hoenderhok:
“We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom’s back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security State.
Technology gives the State enormous powers of access to knowledge and information about each of us, and the ability to collect and store it at will.“
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