Maker Faire in Newcastle, 14–15 March 2009

Looks like fun.

‘No government of any colour is to be trusted with such a roadmap to our souls’

That’s what Ken McDonald, head of the Crown Prosecution Service until 31 October 2008 thinks about the idea of a ‘superdatabase’ tracking the addresses and numbers of all email messages and telephone calls made in the United Kingdom.

I don’t think it is a very attractive or practical idea either. How about you?

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• Open Rights Group tracking the Government’s Intercept Modernisation plans


• Andy Maggs’ correspondence with Home Secretary Jaqui Smith in July and August 2008