Lord Ashdown today condemned government plans to spend £12bn on
a
"Big Brother" database to monitor all the UK's electronic
communications.
The co-chairman of the Commission on National Security at the
Institute for Public Policy
Research, told Computer Weekly that invasions of privacy on
such a scale were "extremely dangerous".
He also condemned current moves to increase the sharing of
personal data across international borders.
Ashdown was speaking at the launch of
Shared Destinies, an interim paper published by the IPPR, on
the need for greater international co-operation to fight terrorism,
organised crime, and natural disaster such as disease
pandemics.
