Brown backs court phone tap use

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7229200.stm

 This issue over allowing the tapping of phones in the U.K. is similar to the controversy over the Patriot Act a few years ago in the U.S. The main question in this debate is what is more important:  civil liberties or public safety. If this proposition is refused, some important cases could go unsolved, but experts don’t think that many cases depend on this method of information intercept. If this resolution is passed, however, the government could potentially catch some terrorist plots before they even occur. Unfortunately, the government could also take this further and use it as a foundation to gain more control over the people and deprive them of their civil liberties. I wouldn’t mind supporting this act as long as law enforcement only used it in cases when it was critical instead of using it on every case or even worse, just random civilians. Overall, I don’t think this will exactly be a dividing issue in the U.K.

~ by edwardrmeow on February 7, 2008.