It appears that the our personal data is now being exported to overseas security and law enforcement agencies.
In a move that should alarm all of us, Home Secretary Jackie Smith has secretly agreed to anyone’s personal data being made available for review by many of the world’s law enforcement agencies and their staff. Full story here.
Under the pretext of national security, this means that anyone in the UK that is captured by one of the many UK CCTV cameras and if identification information can be made from the capture of that data such as car registration number plates, that data can now be exported!
Again, it seems that this UK government is determined not only to keep us all under surveillance here in the UK, but now wants other governments to also spy on us, particularly the USA.
I have asked the Home Office for information on this under the Freedom of Information Act using the What Do They Know site, one of the many excellent web sites setup by the My Society organisation. I would encourage everyone to do the same. I’ll publish what feedback I get back in another post.
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