UK Airports - compulsory fingerprinting may start next year

[skyscraper101]

No. We're not. Another shroud waving, gross exaggeration ...

oh alright...we're 'caught' on CCTV. But the footage could be used to track someone through the airport if need be.

 

[brasicritique]

No, they're not. But it's pointless trying to explain that to you.

you are such a banal wally arent you whats the matter today did your bullying D.I nick your james blunt colletion

FYI councils are using anti terror laws but then i suppose the BBC are making it all up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7372160.stm

 

[detective-boy]

its not as if local councils are using anti terrorist law willynilly is it

FYI councils are using anti terror laws

Spot the difference ...

For YOUR information, I know perfectly well that local councils are using RIPA. And that there have been a handful of cases where it has been misused (usually on the basis of proportionality).

But (a) they are not using it "willy-nilly" and (b) it's NOT anti-terrorist law - it's general law (it was passed in 2000, at a time when the Irish terrorism threat had receded to the point that the Anti-Terrorist Branch was being down-sized and it was intended to RESTRICT the use of surveillance by putting in place a legal framework for when it could be used which had not existed before, something that the passing of the Human Rights Act had required).

So if you'd actually posted accurate, non-scaremongering stuff we wouldn't be disagreeing, would we...