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Originally Posted by steved1969
I don't see why people assume this is such a bad thing, what difference does it really make to me if the government knows what flights / trips I have done and also who with?
Genuinely I am not trying to troll or anything, I just don't see it as such a big deal.
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Steved - if living under mass state surveillance makes you feel safer that's cool. This being a travel site there are many states to which you can travel where you feel very safe. I'm thinking China, Burma, Syria..actually none of these states have the kind of mass surveillance we in the UK do so perhaps I'm wrong. You might care to ask the Russian or East German readers of HU what difference, prior to 1989 it really make to them if the government knows what flights / trips they had done and also who with?
Anyway, my point is there are many who think this is a very sinister thing indeed and even if you there are those of us who do not wish to live in such a state. If we do not want a political party to eviserate every part of our privacy that is OUR right. Your privalege is to question that right but like the government, not to take that right away.
I feel like saying "unless by gun point" but Orwell was spot on about Ingsoc. As long as the proles have their DVD, internet,  , gambling, etc. then they're happy.
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